Hanno Sauer (The Netherlands Universiteit Utrecht)

Debunking Arguments in Ethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thoroughly researched, systematically developed and empirically informed, this book is an original contribution to the literature on debunking arguments in ethics and the reliability of moral cognition. It will interest philosophers, psychologists, and anyone interested in how - and whether - moral judgment works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781108438278
• ISBN-10: 110843827X
• Artikelnr.: 60040006

Autorenporträt

Hanno Sauer is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at the Department of Philosophy at Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands and a member of the Ethics Institute. He is the author of Who's Afraid of Instrumental Reason? Instrumentelle Vernunft und die Diagnose sozialer Pathologien (2009) and Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions (2017). Sauer has published articles in a number of journals including Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Ethics, Philosophical Psychology and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: debunking arguments and the gap
Part I. Debunking: 1. Debunking explained: structure and typology
2. Debunking defused: the metaethical turn
3. Debunking contained: selective and global scope
Part II. Disagreement: 4. Debunking realism: moral disagreement
5. Debunking conservatism: political disagreement
Part III. Deontology: 6. Debunking details: the perils of trolleyology
7. Debunking doctrines: double or knobe effect?
Part IV. Conclusion: 8. Vindicating arguments.