Binding: Hardcover
Description: Compared to other kinds of knowledge how fragile is our knowledge of morality? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds in that it cannot be forgotten? What makes reliable evidence in fundamental moral convictions? And what are the associated problems of using testimony as a source of moral knowledge? Sarah Mc Grath provides novel answers to these questions and many others as she investigates the possibilities sources and characteristic vulnerabilities of moral knowledge. She also considers whether there is anything wrong with simply outsourcing moral questions to a moral expert and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the method of equilibrium as an account of how we make up our mind about moral questions. Ultimately Mc Grath concludes that moral knowledge can be acquired in any of the ways in which we acquire ordinary empirical knowledge. Our efforts to acquire and preserve such knowledge she argues are subject to frustration in all of the same ways that our efforts to acquire and preserve ordinary empirical knowledge are.
Title: Moral Knowledge
Author(s): Mcgrath Sarah (Associate Professor Of Philosophy Princeton University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198805410
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 2/18/2020
Category: Ethics & Moral Philosophy