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Thomas Polzler
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Publisher
Routledge
Published
December 2020
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Author
Thomas Polzler
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Routledge
Published
December 2020
£44.18
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Moral Reality and the Empirical Sciences
Today's Price £44.18
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.
Author
Thomas Polzler
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Routledge
Published
December 2020
Weight
453g
Dimensions
152 x 229 x 14 mm
ISBN
9780367734657
ISBN-10
0367734656
Eden Code
5314841
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Author/Creator: Thomas Polzler
ISBN: 9780367734657
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: December 2020
Weight: 453g
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Eden Code: 5314841