A World Without Values Essays on John Mackie's Moral Error Theory
For centuries, certain moral philosophers have maintained that morality is an illusion, comparable to talking of ghosts or unicorns. These moral skeptics claim that the world simply doesn’t contain the sort of properties (such as moral badness, moral obli
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PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES VOLUME 114
Founded by Wilfrid S. Sellars and Keith Lehrer Editor Stephen Hetherington, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Senior Advisory Editor Keith Lehrer, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A. Associate Editor Stewart Cohen, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A. Board of Consulting Editors Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA U.S.A. Radu Bogdan, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A. Marian David, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, U.S.A. John M. Fischer, University of California, Riverside, CA, U.S.A. Allan Gibbard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. Denise Meyerson, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod, EHESS, Paris, France Mark Sainsbury, University of Texas, Austin, TX, U.S.A. Stuart Silvers, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, U.S.A. Barry Smith, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A. Nicholas D. Smith, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, U.S.A. Linda Zagzebski, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, U.S.A. For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6459
Richard Joyce · Simon Kirchin Editors
A World Without Values Essays on John Mackie’s Moral Error Theory
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Editors Richard Joyce University of Sydney Department of Philosophy Sydney NSW 2006 Australia [email protected]
Simon Kirchin University of Kent Department of Philosophy School of European Culture & Languages Cornwallis North West Canterbury, Kent United Kingdom CT2 7NF [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-3338-3 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3339-0 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3339-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009939617 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
Against Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John P. Burgess
1
Nihilism, Nietzsche, and the Doppelganger Problem . . . . . . . . . . . Charles R. Pigden
17
Patterns of Objectification Richard Joyce
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35
Mackie’s Internalisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
55
Mackie’s Realism: Queer Pigs and the Web of Belief . . . . . . . . . . . Jamie Dreier
71
Mackie on Practical Reason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Phillips
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The Argument from Moral Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Don Loeb
101
Beyond the Error Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Smith
119
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