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Ethical Naturalism and the Problem of Normativity - Hardcover

Copp, David

 
9780197601587: Ethical Naturalism and the Problem of Normativity
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0197601588 ISBN 13: 9780197601587
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2024

Synopsis

We all have ethical beliefs, such as the belief that torture is wrong. Ethical beliefs purport to guide our behaviour rather than merely to describe the world, and this creates a puzzle: What could possibly make some of these beliefs be true? Ethical realists hold that there are ethical facts that make some of them true. Ethical naturalists contend that these are ordinary natural facts -- facts that are similar in all relevant respects to physical ones. This idea has seemed especially problematic. How could it be that any ordinary natural fact has the kind of normativity -- the action-guiding nature -- that our ethical beliefs point to? David Copp answers these puzzles and argues, surprisingly, that ethical naturalism is better positioned to explain the nature of normativity than its alternatives.

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About the Author

David Copp is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Morality, Normativity, and Society (1995) and Morality in a Natural World (2007), and he edited The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory (2006). He served on the editorial boards of Ethics and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0197601588
ISBN 13 
9780197601587
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
376