Ethics Philosophy

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In this accessible book, Richard Double, presents a vigorous defence of metaethical subjectivism, arguing that the acceptance of this doctrine need have no deleterious effects upon theorizing either in normative ethics or in moral practice. Proceeding from a 'worldview' methodology Double criticizes..

In this accessible book, Richard Double, presents a vigorous defence of metaethical subjectivism, arguing that the acceptance of this doctrine need have no deleterious effects upon theorizing either in normative ethics or in moral practice. Proceeding from a 'worldview' methodology Double criticizes..

Mark Platts is responsible for the first systematic presentation of truth-conditional semantics and for turning a generation of philosophers on to the Davidsonian program. He is also a pioneer in discussions of moral realism, and has made important contributions to bioethics, the philosophy of human..

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

How far can we ever hope to understand the Holocaust? What can we reasonably say about right and wrong, moral responsibility, praise and blame, in a world where ordinary reasons seem to be excluded? This book draws together new work by leading moral philosophers to present a wide range of perspe..

Philosophical critics have consistently misidentified the institution of morality. Platts argues that a `realist' standpoint of moral thought was possible from the perspective of the philosophy of psychology...

Philosophical critics have consistently misidentified the institution of morality. Platts argues that a `realist' standpoint of moral thought was possible from the perspective of the philosophy of psychology...

Explores the relation between free will and moral responsibility. Harry Frankfurt's thesis has been at the center of philosophical discussions on free will and moral responsibility. This book draws on the work on Frankfurt's thesis by leading theorists in the area of free will and responsibility, an..

When many people are involved in an activity, it is often difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint who is morally responsible for what—the 'problem of many hands.' This volume provides an in-depth philosophical analysis of this phenomenon, distinguishing between different normative meanings of resp..

This book argues that the modern world calls into existence certain conceptions of morality, but destroys the grounds for taking them seriously. Modernity both needs morality and makes it impossible...

First published in 1971, the five essays in this book were written by young philosophers at Cambridge at that time. They focus on two major questions of ethical theory: ‘What is it to judge morally?’ and ‘What makes a reason a moral reason?’...