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Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism by Erik J. Wielenberg (Hardback, 2014)

Erik J. Wielenberg draws on recent work in analytic philosophy and empirical moral psychology to defend n-theistic robust rmative realism and develop an empirically-grounded account of human moral kwledge. Non-theistic robust rmative realism has it that there are objective, n-natural, sui generis ethical features of the universe that do t depend on God for their existence. The early chapters of the book address various challenges to the intelligibility and plausibility of the claim that irreducible ethical features of things supervene on their n-ethical features as well as challenges from defenders of theistic ethics who argue that objective morality requires a theistic foundation. Later chapters develop an account of moral kwledge and answer various recent purported debunkings of morality, including those based on scientific research into the nature of the proximate causes of human moral beliefs as well as those based on proposed evolutionary explanations of our moral beliefs.

Place of Publication
Oxford
Spine
17mm
Author Biography
Erik J. Wielenberg is Professor of Philosophy at DePauw University. He works primarily in ethics and the philosophy of religion and is the author of Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe (CUP, 2005) and God and the Reach of Reason (CUP, 2007). His work has appeared in such journals as Ethics, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Synthese, Faith and Philosophy, The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Religious Studies.
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Author(s)
Erik J. Wielenberg
Date of Publication
09/10/2014
Subject
Philosophy
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Philosophy

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