Ethical naturalism is narrowly construed as the doctrine that there are moral properties and facts, at least some of which are natural properties and facts. Perhaps owing to its having faced, early on, intuitively forceful objections by eliminativists and non-naturalists, ethical naturalism has only recently become a central player in the debates about the status of moral properties and facts which have occupied philosophers over the last century. It has now become a driving force in those debates, one with sufficient resources to challenge not only eliminativism, especially in its various non-cognitivist forms, but also the most sophisticated versions of non-naturalism. This volume brings together twelve new essays which make it clear that, in light of recent developments in analytic philosophy and the social sciences, there are novel grounds for reassessing the doctrines at stake in these debates.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Ethical Naturalism: Current Debates is a well-conceived and carefully edited volume, and the level of scholarship is exceptionally high. The topics of the papers in this book span a wide spectrum.” –George Lăzăroiu, PhD, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, New York, Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice
“…This edited volume of 12 original essays lays bare the current status of ethical naturalism and illuminates several areas for future inquiry…. Overall, these essays provide an excellent introduction to ethical naturalism and offer original arguments that surely will shape future debates…. Recommended…”
–L. A. Wilkinson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, CHOICE
Book Description
Twelve new essays that demonstrate the challenges ethical naturalism poses to eliminativism and the most sophisticated versions of non-naturalism.
About the Author
Susana Nuccetelli is Professor of Philosophy at St Cloud State University, Minnesota. She is editor of New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge (2003) and, with Gary Seay, Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics (2007). She is the author of Latin American Thought: Philosophical Problems and Arguments (2002).
Gary Seay is Professor of Philosophy at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York. With Susana Nuccetelli, he is co-author of How to Think Logically (2007) and Latin American Philosophy (2004) and co-editor of Themes from G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics (2007).
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