Explanation in ethics and mathematics : debunking and dispensability / Uri D. Leibowitz and Neil Sinclair
- Published:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators:
- Leibowitz, Uri D. and Sinclair, Neil
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics / Uri D. Leibowitz -- pt. I Evolutionary Debunking Arguments -- 2.Debunking and Dispensability / Justin Clarke-Doane -- 3.Explaining the Reliability of Moral Beliefs / Folke Tersman -- 4.Genealogical Explanations of Chance and Morals / Toby Handfield -- 5.Evolutionary Debunking Arguments in Religion and Morality / Erik J. Wielenberg -- 6.`An Assumption of Extreme Significance': Moore, Ross, and Spencer on Ethics and Evolution / Hallvard Lillehammer -- 7.Reply: Confessions of a Modest Debunker / Richard Joyce -- pt. II Indispensability Arguments -- 8.Moral Explanation for Moral Anti-Realism / Alexander Miller -- 9.Grounding, Explanation, and Multiple Realization in Mathematics and Ethics / David Liggins -- 10.Explanatory Indispensability Arguments in Metaethics and Philosophy of Mathematics / Debbie Roberts -- 11.Taking Morality Mathematically: Enoch's Indispensability Argument / Mary Leng -- 12.Non-Optional Projects: Mathematical and Ethical / Alan Baker -- 13.Indispensability Arguments in Metaethics: Even Better than in Mathematics? / David Enoch.
- Summary:
- How far should our realism extend, and how should we understand the entities referred to by mathematical and ethical talk? This volume explores how argumentative strategies in the philosophy of mathematics might apply to ethics, and vice versa. A team of experts breaks new ground in both areas and illuminates new questions, arguments, and problems.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780191824326 (ebook)
- Audience Notes:
- Specialized.
- Note:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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