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Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology

ISBN: 978-1-405-12951-0

October 2006

Wiley-Blackwell

520 pages

Description

A substantial collection of seminal articles, Foundations of Ethics covers all of the major issues in metaethics.

  • Covers all of the major issues in metaethics including moral metaphysics, epistemology, moral psychology, and philosophy of language.
  • Provides an unparalleled offering of primary sources and expert commentary for students of ethical theory.
  • Includes seminal essays by ethicists such as G.E. Moore, Simon Blackburn, Gilbert Harman, Christine Korsgaard, Michael Smith, Bernard Williams, Jonathan Dancy, and many other leading figures of ethical theory.
About the Author
Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (2003) and Moral Realism: A Defence (2005). He is the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 1 (2006) and Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2007).

Terence Cuneo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College. He works primarily in the areas of ethics and the history of philosophy. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid (with René van Woudenberg, 2004), editor of Religion in the Liberal Polity (2005), and author of The Normative Web: An Argument for Moral Realism (2007).

Features

  • Covers all of the major issues in metaethics including moral metaphysics, epistemology, moral psychology, and philosophy of language.
  • Provides an unrivaled offering of primary sources and expert commentary for students of ethical theory.
  • Includes essays by renowned ethicists such as G.E. Moore, Simon Blackburn, Gilbert Harman, Christine Korsgaard, Michael Smith, Bernard Williams, Jonathan Dancy, and many other leading figures of ethical theory.