Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life: Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics

by Peg O'Connor

Book Overview

Moral philosophy, like much of philosophy generally, has been bedeviled by an obsession with seeking secure epistemological foundations and with dichotomies between mind and body, fact and value, subjectivity and objectivity, nature and normativity. These are still alive today in the realism-versus-antirealism debates in ethics. Peg O'Connor draws inspiration from the later Wittgenstein's philosophy to sidestep these pitfalls and develop a new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271033800
• ISBN13: 9780271033808
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"