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<p>How do we know right from wrong? Do we even have moral knowledge? Moral epistemology studies these and related questions about our understanding of virtue and vice. It is one of philosophy’s perennial problems, reaching back to Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Hume and Kant, and has recently been the subject of intense debate as a result of findings in developmental and social psychology.</p> <p>In this outstanding introduction to the subject Aaron Zimmerman covers the following key topics:</p> <ul> <li>What is moral epistemology? What are its methods? Including a discussion of Socrates, Gettier and contemporary theories of knowledge</li> <li>skepticism about moral knowledge based on the anthropological record of deep and persistent moral disagreement, including contextualism</li> <li>moral nihilism, including debates concerning God and morality and the relation between moral knowledge and our motives and reasons to act morally</li> <li>epistemic moral scepticism, intuitionism and the possibility of inferring ‘ought’ from ‘is,’ discussing the views of Locke, Hume, Kant, Ross, Audi, Thomson, Harman, Sturgeon and many others</li> <li>how children acquire moral concepts and become

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Author

Aaron Zachary Zimmerman

Publisher

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612629419

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities