Morality Without Foundations: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism

by Mark Timmons

Book Overview

Morality Without Foundations investigates fundamental metaethical questions about the meaning, truth, and justification of moral thought and discourse. Mark Timmons maintains that all versions of descriptivism in ethics, particularly certain accounts of moral realism, fail. He argues instead that a correct metaethical theory should embrace some version of non-descriptivism. Timmons defends what he calls "assertoric non-descriptivism" which, unlike...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195176545
• ISBN13: 9780195176544
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"