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Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein book cover

1st Edition

Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein

Edited By Benjamin De Mesel, Oskari Kuusela Copyright 2019
292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge
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This book brings together essays from leading scholars who, rather than taking a strictly exegetical approach, attempt to show how discussions in moral philosophy can benefit from Wittgenstein’s later philosophical work. The essays in this volume make the argument that Wittgenstein’s relevance for moral philosophy depends not only on his views about ethics, but also on the methods he introduces,... Read more

Introduction



Oskari Kuusela and Benjamin De Mesel



1. Logical-linguistic Method in Moral Philosophy: Resolving Problems from Iris Murdoch and Bernard Williams with Wittgenstein



Oskari Kuusela



2. Moral Concepts, ‘Natural Facts’ and Naturalism: Outline of a Wittgensteinian Moral Philosophy



Edward Harcourt



3. Boundless Nature: Virtue Ethics, Wittgenstein and Unrestricted Naturalism



Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen



4. Between Tradition and Criticism: The ‘Uncodifiability’ of the Normative



Sabina Lovibond



5. Rule-Following, Moral Realism and Non-Cognitivism Revisited



Alex Miller



6. Are Moral Judgments Semantically Uniform? A Wittgensteinian Approach to the Cognitivism - Non-Cognitivism Debate



Benjamin De Mesel



7. Truth in Ethics: Williams and Wiggins



Cora Diamond



8. Reasons to Be Good?



Lars Hertzberg



9. Hitting Moral Bedrock



Jeremy Johnson



10. Our Fellow Creatures



Craig Taylor



11. Comments on a Contested Comparison: Race and Animals



Alice Crary



12. The Ethical and the Political the Dilemma of Winch’s Vere



Lynette Reid

Biography



Benjamin De Mesel is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) at KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of several articles on Wittgenstein and moral philosophy, and of The Later Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy (2018).





Oskari Kuusela is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Struggle against Dogmatism: Wittgenstein and the Concept of Philosophy (Harvard UP, 2008), Key Terms in Ethics (2010), and Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy (2018).

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