Moral reality /
Paul Bloomfield offers a rigorous defense of moral realism, developing an ontology for morality that models the property of being morally good on the property of being physically healthy. The model is assembled systematically; it first presents the metaphysics of healthiness and goodness, then expla...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction: Protrepticus
- A Modest Transcendental Argument for Moral Realism
- Four Riddles
- ONE: Moral Metaphysics: Reality Unobserved
- The Thesis
- A Primer on Being Healthy
- Healthiness, Conventions, and Relativism
- Healthiness and Goodness
- Supervenience and Reduction
- Blackburn�s Challenge to Moral Realism via Supervenience
- TWO: Moral Epistemology: The Skill of Virtue
- Outline for the Logos of Skillful Practice
- Medical, Navigational, and Moral Theories
- Stubborn Disagreement in Face of the Facts
- Aristotle�s Rejection of Virtues as SkillsTHREE: Moral Language: The ��Good�� Rules
- Following the Linguistic Turn
- Semantics
- Syntax
- FOUR: Moral Practicality: Externalism sans Magnetism
- The Absurdity of Magnetic Tofu
- Intuitions behind Internalism
- Hume and Williams Meet Thrasymachus
- Kant, Nagel, and Korsgaard Meet Anscombe
- A Little Bit of Jimmy Carter in All of Us?
- Appendix: Entropy, Healthiness, and Goodness
- Bibliography
- Index
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