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The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory DAVID COPP OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS the oxford handbook of ETHICAL THEORY ...................................................................................................................................................... OXFORD HANDBOOKS IN PHILOSOPHY PAUL K. MOSER, general editor ...................................................................................................................................................... Series AdvisoryBoard ROBERT AUDI Universityof Nebraska MARTHA NUSSBAUM Universityof Chicago ALVIN PLANTINGA Universityof NotreDame ERNEST SOSA Brown University the oxford handbook of ...................................................................................................................................................... ETHICAL THEORY ...................................................................................................................................................... Edited by DAVID COPP 1 2006 1 OxfordUniversityPress,Inc.,publishesworksthatfurther OxfordUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellence inresearch,scholarship,andeducation. Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright(cid:1)2006byOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Copp,David. TheOxfordhandbookofethicaltheory/DavidCopp. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13978-0-19-514779-7 ISBN0-19-514779-0 1. Ethics. I. Title. BJ1012.C6752005 171—dc22 2004065411 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper For Marina, Margaret, and Cecil This page intentionally left blank reface P ................................. The twenty-two chapters of this book represent the current state of debate on thewiderangeofissuesdiscussedinmoralphilosophy.Theauthorsdonotmerely surveythefield.Theypresentanddefendapointofview,sometimesacontentious point of view, and sometimes one that is disputed in another chapter in the volume. The chaptersare demanding,andwrittenataprofessionallevel,butwith theintentionof beingaccessibletoanysophisticatedreaderwhohasatleastsome background in philosophy. The introduction is intended to provide an overview of the field of ethical theory as well as an overview of the essays. I hope it will make the book more useful. My hope for the volume as a whole is that it will contribute to the continued flowering of moral philosophy. I am grateful to many people for their help with the book and for their encouragement.Mymostimportantdebt,ofcourse,istotheauthorsoftheessays, firstfortheveryhighqualityoftheirwork,butalsofortheirpatience.Thevolume took longer to put together than I had foreseen. For encouraging me to accept the challenge of doing the book, I thank Christopher Morris, Marina Oshana, and my editor at Oxford, Peter Ohlin. Tom Hurka gave me very helpful advice at several important points while I was working on the volume, as did John Fischer. I am sure that there are people who I have forgotten to mention, and I would like to thank them while apologizing for my memory. Many people gave me helpful advice about the introduction. I thank them by name in a note to that chapter. This page intentionally left blank ontents C ........................................ Contributors, xiii Introduction: Metaethics and Normative Ethics, 3 David Copp Part I. Metaethics 1. Moral Realism,39 Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 2. Theological Voluntarism,63 Philip L. Quinn 3. Ethical Naturalism,91 Nicholas L. Sturgeon 4. Nonnaturalism,122 Jonathan Dancy 5. Antirealist Expressivism and Quasi-Realism,146 Simon Blackburn 6. Biology and Ethics,163 Philip Kitcher 7. Sensibility Theory and Projectivism,186 Justin D’Arms and Daniel Jacobson 8. Moral Sentimentalism and Moral Psychology,219 Michael Slote
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