Essays on Moral Realism PDF
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1 0 8 6 6 6 2 8 0 1 6 7 1 3 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from The Arcadia Fund https://archive.org/details/essaysonmoralreaOOunse ESSAYS ON MORAL REALISM ESSAYS ON MORAL REALISM EDITED BY Geoffrey Sayre-McCord Cornell University Press ITHACA AND LONDON Copyright © 1988 by Cornell University Introduction copyright © 1988 by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, 124 Roberts Place, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published 1988 by Cornell University Press. International Standard Book Number (cloth) 0-8014-2240-X International Standard Book Number (paper) 0-8014-9541-5 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 88-47753 Printed in the United States of America Librarians: Library of Congress cataloging information appears on the last page of the book. The paper in this book is acid-free and meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Contents Contributors vii Preface ix •Introduction: The Many Moral Realisms I Geoffrey Sayre-McCord I MORAL ANTI-REALISM • i Critique of Ethics and Theology 27 A. J. Ayer • 2 Ethical Consistency 41 Bernard Williams 3 Supervenience Revisited 59 Simon Blackburn 4 Ethics, Mathematics, and Relativism 76 Jonathan Lear 5 The Subjectivity of Values 95 J. L. Mackie 6 Ethics and Observation 119 Gilbert Harman II MORALREALISM 7 Truth, Invention, and the Meaning of Life 127 David Wiggins [V] Contents * 8 Values and Secondary Qualities 166 John McDowell 9 How to Be a Moral Realist 181 Richard N. Boyd io Moral Explanations 229 Nicholas L. Sturgeon • 11 Moral Theory and Explanatory Impotence 256 Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 12 Moral Reality 282 Mark Platts Bibliography 301 Index 309 [Vi]
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