The Moral Problem

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'Extraordinarily clear and well organized. 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 Keele
'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
'An outstanding and ambitious work, it serves at once as a lucid introduction to meta-ethics and a wide-ranging inquiry into some of its hardest problems.' Brad Hooker, University of Reading
'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... Tovább

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'Extraordinarily clear and well organized. 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 Keele
'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
'An outstanding and ambitious work, it serves at once as a lucid introduction to meta-ethics and a wide-ranging inquiry into some of its hardest problems.' Brad Hooker, University of Reading
'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 Carolina
This widely anticipated book offers a systematic introduction to and striking analysis of the central issues animating current debate in moral philosophy. It will be of interest to anyone with a serious interest in the philosophical foundations of ethics.
Topics discussed include: realist vs. anti-realist accounts of moral truth, cognitivist vs. expressivist accounts of moral judgement; internalist vs. externalist accounts of the relation between moral judgement and the will; Humean vs. anti-Humean theories of motivation; and the debate between those who think that morality is a system of hypothetical imperatives and those who think that moral requirements are categorical imperatives.
Michael Smith Vissza