Morality in a Natural World: Selected Essays in Metaethics
David Copp - Cambridge University Press, 2007
The central philosophical challenge of
metaethics is to account for the normativity of moral judgment without
abandoning or seriously compromising moral realism. In Morality in a Natural
World, David Copp defends a version of naturalistic moral realism that can
accommodate the normativity of morality. Moral naturalism is often thought to
face special metaphysical, epistemological, and semantic problems as well as the
difficulty in accounting for normativity. In the ten essays included in this
volume, Copp defends solutions to these problems. Three of the essays are new,
while seven have previously been published. All of them are concerned with the
viability of naturalistic and realistic accounts of the nature of morality, or,
more generally, with the viability of naturalistic accounts of
reasons.
