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Reality and Morality

Author : Billy Dunaway
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198858256
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Reality and Morality written by Billy Dunaway and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality and Morality develops and defends a framework for moral realism. It defends the idea that moral properties are metaphysically elite, or privileged parts of reality, and argues that realists can hold that this makes them highly eligible as the referents for our moral terms (an application of a thesis sometimes called reference magnetism). Billy Dunaway elaborates on these theses by introducing some natural claims about how we can know about morality, by having beliefs that are free from a kind of risk of error. This package of theses in metaphysics, meta-semantics, and epistemology is motivated with a view to explaining possible moral disagreements. Many writers have emphasized the scope of moral disagreement, and have given compelling examples of possible users of moral language who appear to be genuinely disagreeing, rather than talking past one another, with their use of moral language. What has gone unnoticed is that there are limits to these possible disagreements, and not all possible users of moral language are naturally interpreted as capable of genuine disagreement. The realist view developed in Reality and Morality can explain both the extent of, and the limits to, moral disagreement, and thereby has explanatory power that counts significantly in its favour.

Moral Reality and the Empirical Sciences

Author : Thomas Pölzler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351383337
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Moral Reality and the Empirical Sciences written by Thomas Pölzler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there objective moral truths (things that are morally right or wrong independently of what anybody thinks about them)? To answer this question more and more scholars have recently begun to appeal to evidence from scientific disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, biology, and anthropology. This book investigates this novel scientific approach in a comprehensive, empirically focused, partly clarificatory, and partly metatheoretical way. It argues for two main theses. First, it is possible for the empirical sciences to contribute to the moral realism/anti-realism debate. And second, most appeals to science that have so far been proposed are insufficiently empirically substantiated. The book’s main chapters address four prominent science-based arguments for or against the existence of objective moral truths: the presumptive argument, the argument from moral disagreement, the sentimentalist argument, and the evolutionary debunking argument. For each of these arguments Thomas Pölzler first identifies the sense in which its underlying empirical hypothesis would have to be true in order for the argument to work. Then he shows that the available scientific evidence fails to support this hypothesis. Finally, he also makes suggestions as to how to test the hypothesis more validly in future scientific research. Moral Reality and the Empirical Sciences is an important contribution to the moral realism/anti-realism debate that will appeal both to philosophers and scientists interested in moral psychology and metaethics.

Moral Reality

Author : Paul Bloomfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195172396
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Moral Reality written by Paul Bloomfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Bloomfield offers a rigorous defense of moral realism, developing an ontology for morality that models the property of being morally good on the property of being physically healthy. The model is assembled systematically; it first presents the metaphysics of healthiness and goodness, then explains our epistemic access to properties such as these, adds a complementary analysis of the semantics and syntax of moral discourse, and finishes with a discussion of how we become motivated to act morally. Bloomfield closely attends to the traditional challenges facing moral realism, and the discussion ranges from modern medical theory to ancient theories of virtue, and from animal navigation to the nature of normativity.

Reality and Morality

Author : Billy Dunaway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191899089
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Reality and Morality written by Billy Dunaway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality and Morality develops and defends a framework for moral realism. It defends the idea that moral properties are metaphysically elite, or privileged parts of reality, and argues that realists can hold that this makes them highly eligible as the referents for our moral terms (an application of a thesis sometimes called reference magnetism). Billy Dunaway elaborates on these theses by introducing some natural claims about how we can know about morality, by having beliefs that are free from a kind of risk of error. This package of theses in metaphysics, meta-semantics, and epistemology is motivated with a view to explaining possible moral disagreements. Many writers have emphasized the scope of moral disagreement, and have given compelling examples of possible users of moral language who appear to be genuinely disagreeing, rather than talking past one another, with their use of moral language. What has gone unnoticed is that there are limits to these possible disagreements, and not all possible users of moral language are naturally interpreted as capable of genuine disagreement. The realist view developed in Reality and Morality can explain both the extent of, and the limits to, moral disagreement, and thereby has explanatory power that counts significantly in its favour.

The Evolution of Morality

Author : Richard Joyce
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262263254
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Morality written by Richard Joyce and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence supports an innate basis to human morality. As a moral philosopher, Joyce is interested in whether any implications follow from this hypothesis. Might the fact that the human brain has been biologically prepared by natural selection to engage in moral judgment serve in some sense to vindicate this way of thinking—staving off the threat of moral skepticism, or even undergirding some version of moral realism? Or if morality has an adaptive explanation in genetic terms—if it is, as Joyce writes, "just something that helped our ancestors make more babies"—might such an explanation actually undermine morality's central role in our lives? He carefully examines both the evolutionary "vindication of morality" and the evolutionary "debunking of morality," considering the skeptical view more seriously than have others who have treated the subject. Interdisciplinary and combining the latest results from the empirical sciences with philosophical discussion, The Evolution of Morality is one of the few books in this area written from the perspective of moral philosophy. Concise and without technical jargon, the arguments are rigorous but accessible to readers from different academic backgrounds. Joyce discusses complex issues in plain language while advocating subtle and sometimes radical views. The Evolution of Morality lays the philosophical foundations for further research into the biological understanding of human morality.

Explaining Morality

Author : Steve Ash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000568377
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Explaining Morality written by Steve Ash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a critical realist approach to morality, this book considers morality as an aspect of social reality, enquiring into the nature of moral agency and asking whether we can legitimately argue for a specific moral position and whether moral positions can be understood to apply universally. Drawing on the thought of Bhaskar, Collier and Sayer, it explores a series of ontological questions about morality, shedding light on the ways in which critical realism can be used to address them, ultimately responding to the question of whether critical realism and the moral theories that have been produced through its use can provide an explanation of morality as a feature of reality. Through a synthesis of realist thought, the author develops a comprehensive theoretical understanding of morality that can be tested for its explanatory power through subsequent practical research. As such, it will appeal to scholars of philosophy and social science with interests in critical realism, ontology and meta-ethics.

Morality Vs. Reality

Author : Farooq Tareen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781082072437
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Morality Vs. Reality written by Farooq Tareen and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of civilisation is strewn with conflict between science and religion. A battle has always raged between people, ideologies, and power, with those looking to shape the very nature of our own reality in a way that reaffirms the accepted flow of power and leadership. The stunning new work from Farooq Tareen, Morality vs. Reality, investigates this difficult dichotomy, analysing how kings, emperors and powerful leaders used religion to gain power and control over their subjects, and how the moral values of good and evil were carved into what they are today. Through extensive research and compelling studies, Tareen dives into the origins of the major religions and studies how their core values were often fundamentally the same. While their morals are rooted in upholding the order of things, their leaders had been using their followers as a tool with which peace was eroded and in turn, atrocities were committed. Whilst these practices are rooted in history, they're still rife across the globe, and the media appears to have taken much of this control. With the advent of social media, fake news and targeted advertising, along with controlled corporations of banking systems and the IMF, media has perhaps become the single most powerful entity to cause conflict, pain and poverty. Morally, many governments claim allegiance to democracy, freedom of speech and peace through the media. However, in reality, we uncover their lust for control and wealth. In the thought-provoking pages of Morality vs. Reality, author Farooq Tareen lays bares the clear hypocrisies that have control over our world, in much the same way as they were thousands of years ago.

Moral Development and Reality

Author : John C. Gibbs
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761923893
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Moral Development and Reality written by John C. Gibbs and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-04-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplementary textbook for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course dealing with moral psychology. It looks at implications of and problems with theories of moral development put forward by Lawrence Kohlberg and Martin L. Hoffman. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality

Author : Erick Jose Ramirez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000517357
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality written by Erick Jose Ramirez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR "presence" to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences. The author provides compelling evidence that VR simulations are capable of producing "virtually real" experiences in people. He also provides a framework for understanding when and how simulations induce virtually real experiences. From these insights, the book shows that virtually real experiences are responsible for several unaddressed ethical issues in VR research and design. Experimental philosophers, moral psychologists, and institutional review boards must become sensitive to the ethical issues involved between designing "realistic" virtual dilemmas, for good data collection, and avoiding virtually real trauma. Ethicists and game designers must do more to ensure that their simulations don’t inculcate harmful character traits. Virtually real experiences, the author claims, can make virtual relationships meaningful, productive, and conducive to welfare but they can also be used to systematically mislead and manipulate users about the nature of their experiences. The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality will appeal to philosophers working in applied ethics, philosophy of technology, and aesthetics, as well as researchers and students interested in game studies and game design.

The Moral Landscape

Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143917122X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Landscape written by Sam Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.

God and Morality

Author : R. Keith Loftin
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830863451
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book God and Morality written by R. Keith Loftin and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is morality dependent upon belief in God? Is there more than one way for Christians to understand the nature of morality? Is there any agreement between Christians and atheists or agnostics on this heated issue? In God and Morality: Four Views four distinguished voices in moral philosophy ariticulate and defend their place in the current debate between naturalism and theism. Christian philosophers, Keith Yandell and Mark Linville and two self-identified atheist/agnostics, Evan Fales and Michael Ruse clearly and honestly represent their differing views on the nature of morality. Important differences as well as areas of overlap emerge as each contributor states their case, receives criticism from the others and responds. Of particular value for use as an academic text, these four essays and responses, covering the naturalist moral non-realist, naturalist moral realist, moral essentialist and moral particularist views, will foster critical thinking and contribute to the development of a well-informed position on this very important issue.

The Nature of Morality

Author : Gilbert Harman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Morality written by Gilbert Harman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moral Realism

Author : Russ Shafer-Landau
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199259755
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Moral Realism written by Russ Shafer-Landau and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Realism is a systematic defence of the idea that there are objective moral standards. In the tradition of Plato and G. E. Moore, Russ Shafer-Landau argues that there are moral principles that are true independently of what anyone, anywhere, happens to think of them. These principles are a fundamental aspect of reality, just as much as those that govern mathematics or the natural world. They may be true regardless of our ability to grasp them, and their truth is not a matter of their being ratified from any ideal standpoint, nor of being the object of actual or hypothetical consensus, nor of being an expression of our rational nature. Shafer-Landau accepts Plato's and Moore's contention that moral truths are sui generis. He rejects the currently popular efforts to conceive of ethics as a kind of science, and insists that moral truths and properties occupy a distinctive area in our ontology. Unlike scientific truths, the fundamental moral principles are knowable a priori. And unlike mathematical truths, they are essentially normative: intrinsically action-guiding, and supplying a justification for all who follow their counsel. Moral Realism is the first comprehensive treatise defending non-naturalistic moral realism in over a generation. It ranges over all of the central issues in contemporary metaethics, and will be an important source of discussion for philosophers and their students interested in issues concerning the foundations of ethics.

Morality and Metaphysics

Author : Charles Larmore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108472346
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Morality and Metaphysics written by Charles Larmore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops an account of morality, freedom, and reason that breaks with many leading currents of modern thought. Starting from an analysis of moral judgment, it branches into related topics such as freedom and the causal order, textual interpretation, the self and self-knowledge, and duties to ourselves.

Moral Dilemmas in Real Life

Author : Ovadia Ezra
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402041055
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Moral Dilemmas in Real Life written by Ovadia Ezra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Dilemmas in Real Life purports to supply ways of thinking of, perhaps even dealing with, the ins and outs of ethical argument. The world today presents both individuals and communities with situations, which demand moral and ethical deliberations. From the more general issues of universal globalization to the very specific problems of every-day existence encountered by active agents, contemporary life is replete with moral and ethical conundrums. Any thinking person is required, so it seems, to be concerned, involved, or – at the very least – conversant with these issues and this book supplies the wherewithal needed. Applied ethics is that intellectual locale where theory meets praxis. Moral Dilemmas in Real Life is designed to make that meeting point explicit, by presenting a series of issues in well-grounded philosophical formulations. The book begins with the general relation between the individual and society – instilling ethical tension, and even clashes, between the private and the public in our discourse. Going on, from general to specific, it gradually narrows the ethical playing field to touch on medical ethics, the family, and the practice of punishment. In all cases, the book addresses both consensual and conventional social institutions and distortions thereof.

The Trouble with Reality

Author : Brooke Gladstone
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152350238X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Reality written by Brooke Gladstone and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every week on the public radio show On the Media, the award-winning journalist Brooke Gladstone analyzes the media and how it shapes our perceptions of the world. Now, from her front-row perch on the day’s events, Gladstone brings her genius for making insightful, unexpected connections to help us understand what she calls—and what so many of us can acknowledge having—“trouble with reality.” Reality, as she shows us, was never what we thought it was—there is always a bubble, people are always subjective and prey to stereotypes. And that makes reality actually more vulnerable than we ever thought. Enter Donald J. Trump and his team of advisors. For them, as she writes, lying is the point. The more blatant the lie, the easier it is to hijack reality and assert power over the truth. Drawing on writers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Walter Lippmann, Philip K. Dick, and Jonathan Swift, she dissects this strategy, straight out of the authoritarian playbook, and shows how the Trump team mastered it, down to the five types of tweets that Trump uses to distort our notions of what’s real and what’s not. And she offers hope. There is meaningful action, a time-tested treatment for moral panic. And there is also the inevitable reckoning. History tells us we can count on it. Brief and bracing, The Trouble with Reality shows exactly why so many of us didn’t see it coming, and how we can recover both our belief in reality—and our sanity.

Moral Reality

Author : Paul Bloomfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190285893
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Moral Reality written by Paul Bloomfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We typically assume that the standard for what is beautiful lies in the eye of the beholder. Yet this is not the case when we consider morality; what we deem morally good is not usually a matter of opinion. Such thoughts push us toward being realists about moral properties, but a cogent theory of moral realism has long been an elusive philosophical goal. Paul Bloomfield here offers a rigorous defense of moral realism, developing an ontology for morality that models the property of being morally good on the property of being physically healthy. The model is assembled systematically; it first presents the metaphysics of healthiness and goodness, then explains our epistemic access to properties such as these, adds a complementary analysis of the semantics and syntax of moral discourse, and finishes with a discussion of how we become motivated to act morally. Bloomfield closely attends to the traditional challenges facing moral realism, and the discussion nimbly ranges from modern medical theory to ancient theories of virtue, and from animal navigation to the nature of normativity. Maintaining a highly readable style throughout, Moral Reality yields one of the most compelling theories of moral realism to date and will appeal to philosophers working on issues in metaphysics or moral philosophy.