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Morality and Reason*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Douglas Odegard
Douglas Odegard
Affiliation:
University of Guelph
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Extract

The thirteen papers in Morality, Reason and Truth address various dimensions of the complex relationship between morality and rationality. Most of the papers are new and they are generally at the cutting edge of current research. The collection is a substantial and important contribution to metaethics. The following are the views I found most challenging. Although they do not exhaust the book's contents, they are a good sample of its unity, range, and instructive power.

Type
Critical Notices/Etudes Critiques
Information
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , Spring 1988 , pp. 135 - 146
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1988

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References

1 See Harman, Gilbert, The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (London: Oxford University Press, 1977).Google Scholar

2 Platts, Mark, “Moral Reality and the End of Desire”, in Platts, M., ed., Reference, Truth and Meaning (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981).Google Scholar

3 Wiggins, David, “Truth, Invention and the Meaning of Life”, Proceedings of the British Academy (1976), 331–378.Google Scholar

4 David Gauthier makes the relativism explicit in his Morals by Agreement (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), chap. 2.Google Scholar

5 In a related paper, Ronald de Sousa investigates ways in which biology might support teleological arguments in ethics.