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selected essays in metaethics

David Copp

Cambridge University Press

xiii, 361 p

Cambridge studies in philosophy

Introduction -- Naturalism : epistemology, and metaphysics -- Why naturalism? -- Four epistemological challenges to ethical naturalism : naturalized epistemology and the first-person perspective -- Moral naturalism and self-evident moral truths -- Moral necessities in a contingent world -- Referring to moral properties -- Realist-expressivism : a neglected option for moral realism -- Milk, honey, and the good life on moral twin Earth -- Referring to moral properties : moral twin Earth, again -- Naturalism and normativity -- Moral naturalism and three grades of normativity -- The Ring of Gyges : overridingness and the unity of reason -- The normativity of self-grounded reason.

BJ

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2007

9780521863711 (hardback) ,

Includes bibliographical references and index

2007