The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia Ethica

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1 Life and work
	1.1 Growing up
	1.2 Early years at Cambridge
	1.3 The philosopher’s philosopher
	Notes
	Suggested reading
2 Principia Ethica in its context
	2.1 The non-expert readers of Principia Ethica
	2.2 Practical ethics: reformist for some, too conservative for others
	2.3 From absolute idealism to non-naturalistic realism
	Notes
	Suggested reading
3 Philosophy of Ethics
	3.1 The subject matter of ethics
	3.2 Core theses of Moore’s philosophy of ethics
	Notes
	Suggested reading
4 Moral language and thought
	4.1 Moore’s moral semantics in context
	4.2 A goodness-centered semantical minimalism
	Notes
	Suggested reading
5 The Open Question Argument
	5.1 Reconstructing Principia’s Open Question Argument (OQA)
	5.2 Assessing the Open Question Argument
	5.3 Recasting the Open Question Argument
	Notes
	Suggested reading
6 The naturalistic fallacy
	6.1 Reconstructing Moore’s naturalistic fallacy charge
	6.2 Has anyone committed the naturalistic fallacy?
	Notes
	Suggested reading
7 Moral knowledge
	7.1 Natural/non-natural: an epistemological criterion
	7.2 Against moral intuitionism: the causal and the reliability objections
	7.3 Evolutionary debunking arguments
	Notes
	Suggested reading
8 Moral properties and truths
	8.1 Natural/non-natural: a metaphysical criterion
	8.2 Objections to metaphysical non-naturalism
	Notes
	Suggested reading
9 Intrinsic value
	9.1 The attributes of Moorean goodness
	9.2 Challenges to Moorean goodness
	Notes
	Suggested reading
10 Moral obligation
	10.1 Moral and non-moral obligation
	10.2 Obligation, value, and practical reason
	Notes
	Suggested reading
11 Normative ethics and theory of value
	11.1 Ideal consequentialism, classical utilitarianism, and ethical egoism
	11.2 Value pluralism and holism
	11.3 The method of isolation
	Notes
	Suggested reading
Epilogue: the legacy of G. E. Moore and Principia Ethica
Bibliography
Index