Philosophical Perspectives on Moral Certainty (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Eriksen, Cecilie; Pleasants, Nigel; O'Hara, Neil; Hermann, Julia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Moral certainty refers to those aspects of morality- moral acting, feeling, and thinking-that are beyond doubt, explanation, and justification. The essays in this book explore the concept of moral certainty and its application and usefulness in contemporary moral debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000825459
• Artikelnr.: 66764512

Autorenporträt

Cecilie Eriksen is a Special Consultant at the National Center of Ethics, The Ministry of Health, Copenhagen, Denmark. She is also an affiliated researcher on the research programme The Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies and the author of Moral Change: Dynamics, Structure and Normativity (2020). Julia Hermann is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy and Ethics of Technology and fellow on the NWO-funded research programme The Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies, University of Twente, the Netherlands. She is the author of On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice: A Wittgensteinian Perspective (2015). Neil O'Hara is a Visiting Lecturer at London School of Theology, and an Independent Scholar, UK. He is the author of Moral Certainty and the Foundations of Morality (2018). Nigel Pleasants is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory (Routledge, 1999) and recent articles on moral certainty, moral revolution, slavery and abolition, the Holocaust, and issues in philosophy of social science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: On Moral Certainty Neil O'Hara, Cecilie Eriksen, Julia
Hermann, and Nigel Pleasants 2. Socially Disruptive Technologies and Moral
Certainty Julia Hermann 3. Bedrock Gender Daniele Moyal-Sharrock and
Constantine Sandis 4. "The Frightening Thing Is the Uncertainty":
Wittgenstein on Love and the Desire for Certainty Camilla Kronqvist 5.
Unbearable Certainties Joel Backström 6. Wrong Hinges Anna Boncompagni 7.
Local Moral Certainty and the Possibility of Cross-Cultural Understanding
Neil O'Hara 8. A Wittgensteinian Account of Free Will and Moral
Responsibility Stefan Rummens and Benjamin De Mesel 9. Moral Certainty and
Conceptual Deficiency: A Wittgensteinian Critique of the Moral Fixed Points
Proposal Samuel Laves 10. Moral Certainties - Subjective, Objective,
Objectionable? Hans-Johann Glock 11. Nigel Pleasants on Moral Certainties:
A Critical Discussion Martin Kusch 12. Is There an Internal Link between
Seeing a Human and Seeing One to Whom Moral Consideration Is Due? José
Mariá Ariso Index