The Moral Problem by Michael Smith (Monash University, Australia)
This widely anticipated volume offers a systematic introduction to and striking analysis of the central issues animating current debate in moral philosophy.
The Moral Problem
The Moral Problem
Summary
Offers an introduction to and an analysis of the issues of debate in moral philosophy. This book is useful to anyone with an interest in the philosophical foundations of ethics.
The Moral Problem Summary
The Moral Problem Reviews
The Moral Problem's ability to combine originality and subject overview are two factors that render this book an essential text for anyone enrolled on an intermediate level moral philosophy course and above. With a certain level of guidance, the book's powerful clarity and explanatory style could also be harnessed at the introductory level. Overall, I strong recommend this text and believe the non-philosopher would also learn a great deal about how moral philosophy works. (Philosophy & Economics Books Reviews, 1 April 2013)
Vigorous, engaging, and marvelously sophisticated, Michael Smith's The Moral Problem faces head-on the challenge of reconciling morality's motivational relevance with its claims to objectivity and categorical force - without abandoning a Humean account of human action and without metaphysical extravagance. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, University of North CarolinaExtraordinarily clear and well organised. Reading this book takes you right into the centre of the intense contemporary debate on moral theory. Smith knows exactly what he is doing, and slowly puts together a redoubtable argument for the broadly realist position he favours. Jonathan Dancy, University of Reading
An intelligent, clear, and engaging book Times Literary Supplement
An outstanding and ambitious work, it serves at once as a lucid introduction to metaethics and a wide-ranging inquiry into some of its hardest problems. Brad Hooker, University of Reading
A marvelous volume: it is not only an important contribution to philosophical ethics, but also an exciting introduction to the subject. The book is an excellent model of how to do philosophy, a model I hope students (and their teachers) will adopt for themselves. Gilbert Harman, Princeton University
About Michael Smith (Monash University, Australia)
Michael Smith is Reader in Philosophy at Monash University, Australia, having taught previously at the University of Oxford and Princeton University. He is the author of several essays in ethics and moral philosophy.
Table of Contents
1. What is the Moral Problem?.
2. The Expressivist Challenge.
3. The Externalist Challenge.
4. The Humean Theory of Motivation.
5. An Anti-Humean Theory of Normative Reasons.
6. How to Solve the Moral Problem.
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GOR004500606
9780631192466
0631192468
The Moral Problem by Michael Smith (Monash University, Australia)
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
19941028
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