Moral Skepticism: New Essays [Paperback]

Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. Particularly since the turn of the millennium, the debates between moral skeptics of various stripes and their opponents have gained renewed force not only by taking account of innovative ideas in moral philosophy, but also by drawing on novel positions in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language as well as on recent findings in empirical sciences. As a result, new arguments for and against moral skepticism have been devised, while the traditional ones have been reexamined. This collection of original essays will advance the ongoing debates about various forms of moral skepticism by discussing such topics as error theory, disagreement, constructivism, non-naturalism, expressivism, fictionalism, and evolutionary debunking arguments. It will be a valuable resource for academics and advanced students working in metaethics and moral philosophy more generally.

1. Moral Skepticism: An Introduction and Overview

Diego E. Machuca

2. Projection, Indeterminacy and Moral Skepticism

Hallvard Lillehammer

3. Error Theory, Relaxation and Inferentialism

Christine Tiefensee

4. Why We Really Cannot Believe the Error Theory

Bart Streumer

5. Are There Substantive Moral Conceptual Truths?

David Copp

6. The Phenomenology of Moral Authority

Terry Horgan & Mark Timmons

7. Arguments from Moral Disagreement to Skepticism

Richard Joyce

8. Evolutionary Debunking, Realism and Anthropocentric Metasemantics

Mark van Roojen

9. Moral Skepticism and lƒ¾