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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloomfield, Paul, 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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
  • Blackburnâ€?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
  • Aristotleâ€?s Rejection of Virtues as SkillsTHREE: Moral Language: The â€?â€?Goodâ€?â€? 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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