Setiya has written a book that is imaginative and novel, both in the way he develops the skeptical worries at its core, and in the way he addresses them.

Paul Schofield, Journal of Moral Philosophy

an excellent contribution to a perennially contested area. All philosophers can profit from this book, and should admire the meticulous craftsmanship and the modesty and intelligence of its explorations.

Simon Blackburn, Times Literary Supplement

rich and provocative

Charlie Kurth, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? The thought that we can is beset by sceptical problems. In the face of radical disagreement, can we be sure that we are not deceived? If the facts are independent of what we think, is our reliability a mere coincidence? Can it be anything but luck when our beliefs are true? In Knowing Right From Wrong, Kieran Setiya confronts these questions in their most compelling and articulate forms: the argument from ethical disagreement; the argument from reliability and coincidence; and the argument from accidental truth. In order to resist the inference from disagreement to scepticism, he argues, we must reject epistemologies of intuition, coherence, and reflective equilibrium. The problem of disagreement can be solved only if the basic standards of epistemology in ethics are biased towards the truth. In order to solve the problem of coincidence, we must embrace arguments for reliability in ethics that rely on ethical beliefs. Such arguments do not beg the question in an epistemically damaging way. And in order to make sense of ethical knowledge as non-accidental truth, we must give up the independence of ethical fact and belief. We can do so without implausible predictions of convergence or relativity if the facts are bound to us through the natural history of human life. If there is objective ethical knowledge, human nature is its source.
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Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? Can it be anything but luck when our beliefs are true? Kieran Setiya confronts these questions in their most compelling and articulate forms, and argues that if there is objective ethical knowledge, human nature is its source.
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Contents ; Preface ; Introduction ; 1. Disagreement ; 2. Reliability ; 3. Knowledge ; 4. Human Nature ; Bibliography ; Index
`Setiya has written a book that is imaginative and novel, both in the way he develops the skeptical worries at its core, and in the way he addresses them.' Paul Schofield, Journal of Moral Philosophy `an excellent contribution to a perennially contested area. All philosophers can profit from this book, and should admire the meticulous craftsmanship and the modesty and intelligence of its explorations.' Simon Blackburn, Times Literary Supplement `rich and provocative' Charlie Kurth, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Ambitious monograph from a leading young philosopher An original view on ethical knowledge, which answers the most radical sceptical challenges Connects recent developments in epistemology with moral philosophy
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Kieran Setiya is Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works in action theory, epistemology, and ethics, and is the author of Reasons without Rationalism (Princeton University Press, 2007).
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Ambitious monograph from a leading young philosopher An original view on ethical knowledge, which answers the most radical sceptical challenges Connects recent developments in epistemology with moral philosophy
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198709619
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
220 gr
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
142 mm
Dybde
11 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
184

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Om bidragsyterne

Kieran Setiya is Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works in action theory, epistemology, and ethics, and is the author of Reasons without Rationalism (Princeton University Press, 2007).