How do we know right from wrong? Do we even have moral
knowledge? Moral epistemology studies these and related questions
about our understanding of virtue and vice. It is one of
philosophy's perennial problems, reaching back to Plato, Aristotle,
Aquinas, Locke, Hume and Kant, and has recently been the subject of
intense debate as a result of findings in developmental and social
psychology.
In this outstanding introduction to the subject Aaron Zimmerman
covers the following key topics:
- What is moral epistemology? What are its methods? Including a
discussion of Socrates, Gettier and contemporary theories of
knowledge
- skepticism about moral knowledge based on the anthropological
record of deep and persistent moral disagreement, including
contextualism
- moral nihilism, including debates concerning God and morality
and the relation between moral knowledge and our motives and
reasons to act morally
- epistemic moral scepticism, intuitionism and the possibility of
inferring ?ought? from ?is, ? discussing the views of Locke, Hume,
Kant, Ross, Audi, Thomson, Harman, Sturgeon and many others
- how children acquire moral concepts and become more reliable
judges
- criticisms of those who would reduce moral knowledge to
value-neutral knowledge or attempt to replace moral belief with
emotion.
Throughout the book Zimmerman argues that our belief in moral
knowledge can survive sceptical challenges. He also draws on a rich
range of examples from Plato's Meno and Dickens? David Copperfield
to Bernard Madoff and Saddam Hussein.
Including chapter summaries and annotated further reading at the
end of each chapter, Moral Epistemology is essential reading for
all students of ethics, epistemology and moral psychology.
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