Moral Knowledge? New Readings in Moral Epistemology

In Moral Knowledge?: New Readings in Moral Epistemology, editors WalterSinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons bring together eleven specially commissionedessays by distinguished moral philosophers exploring the nature and possibilityof moral knowledge. Each essay represents a major position within the excitingfield of moral epistemology in which a proponent of the position presents anddefends his or her view and locates it vis-a-vis competing views. The authorsinclude established philosophers such as Peter Railton, Robert Audi, RichardBrandt, and Simon Blackburn, as well as newer voices in the field. Topicscovered include moral skepticism, moral truth, projectivism, contractarianism,coherentism, feminist views, quasi-realism, and pragmatism.The lively and clear selections do not presuppose specialized knowledge ofphilosophy, and the philosophical vocabulary used throughout the anthology isuniform, in order to facilitate understanding by those not familiar with thefield. The first chapter includes a sustained critical discussion of the majorviews represented in the following chapters, thereby furnishing beginningstudents with appropriate background to understand the selections. The volume isfurther enhanced by an index and an extensive bibliography. An excellent textfor undergraduate and graduate courses, Moral Knowledge provides the mostup-to-date work on moral knowledge and justification.