Value and Context The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2010
- 347p
includes index and biblioraphy
I. MORAL KNOWLEDGE AND MORAL REASONS 1. The Problem of Moral Knowledge 11 2. The Case for Cognitivism 32 3. Values, Norms, and die Practical 53 4. Internal Reasons and Contractualist Impartiality 67 II. NORM-EXPRESSIVISM AND NON-OBJECTIVISM 5. A Critique of Expressivism 101 6. Non-Objectivism and Internal Realism 130 III. CONTEXTUALIST MORAL JUSTIFICATION 7. Epistemological Contextualism 169 8. A Contextual Model of Moral Justification 198 9. Tradition Based Moral Enquiry 225 10. Moral Belief and die Possibility of Error 246 IV. CONTEXTUALISM IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 11. Political Liberalism and Contextualism 271 12. Political Liberalism and Civic Republicanism 295