| Description |
1 online resource (73 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge elements. Elements in ethics |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epistemology and Methodology in Ethics -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Asymmetrical Skepticism about Ethics -- 2.1 Introducing Asymmetrical Ethical Skepticism -- 2.2 Arguing for Asymmetrical Skepticism: Six Strategies -- 2.3 Anti-Skeptical Resources -- 3 Epistemic Considerations in Metaethics -- 4 The Epistemic Character of Ethics -- 4.1 Clarifying the Target Epistemic Questions -- 4.2 Empirical Sources for Ethical Knowledge? -- 4.3 A Priori Sources for Ethical Knowledge? -- 4.4 Is Ethical Testimony Distinctively Problematic? |
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4.5 How Deeply Epistemically Distinctive Is Ethics? -- 5 Methodology in Ethics beyond Epistemology -- 5.1 The Conceptual Ethics Question -- 5.2 The Goal Question -- 5.2.1 Ultimate Goals for Ethical Inquiry -- 5.2.2 Proximate Goals for Ethical Inquiry -- 5.2.3 Interaction between Goals and Conceptual Ethics -- 5.3 Reflective Equilibrium -- 6 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
This Element introduces several prominent themes in contemporary work on the epistemology and methodology of ethics. Topics addressed include skeptical challenges in ethics, epistemic arguments in metaethics, what (if anything) is epistemically distinctive of the ethical. Also considered are methodological questions in ethics, including questions about which ethical concepts we should investigate, and what our goals should be in ethical inquiry |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 16, 2020) |
| Subject |
Virtue epistemology.
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Ethics.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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epistemology.
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Ethics
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Virtue epistemology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108581493 |
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1108581498 |
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