Moral Fictionalism and Religious Fictionalism

Author:   Richard Joyce (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington) ,  Stuart Brock (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington)
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Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 December 2023
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Atheism is a familiar kind of skepticism about religion. Moral error theory is an analogous kind of skepticism about morality, though less well known outside academic circles. Both kinds of skeptic face a

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Author:   Richard Joyce (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington) ,  Stuart Brock (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9780198881865


ISBN 10:   019888186
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 December 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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IntroducionRichard Joyce: 1: James Lenman: Reasons for pretending and pretend reasons 2: Jessica Isserow: Should moral error theorists make do with make-believe 3: Jonas Olson and Victor Moberger: Moral fictionalism: How and why? 4: François Jaquet: Moral fictionalism and misleading analogies 5: Graham Oppy: Religious fictionalism 6: Bradley Armour-Garb and Frederick Kroon: The pretensions of religious fictionalism 7: Mary Leng: Is the Pope Catholic? Religious fictionalism and the hazards of belief 8: Michael Scott: Religious fictionalism: Strategies and obstacles 9: Natalja Deng: The contours of religious fictionalism 10: Robin Le Poidevin: Should moral fictionalists be religious fictionalists (or vice versa)? 11: Seahwa Kim: Do we have reason to adopt religious fictionalism or moral fictionalism? 12: Stuart Brock: Revolutionary moral fictionalism and the problem of imaginative failure 13: Richard Joyce: Yes to moral fictionalism; no to religious fictionalism

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Richard Joyce received his PhD from Princeton in 1998. Over the following years he held academic positions at the University of Sheffield, the Australian National University, and the University of Sydney, eventually taking up a professorship at Victoria University of Wellington in 2010. He is the author of Essays in Moral Skepticism (OUP, 2016), The Evolution of Morality (MIT Press, 2006), and The Myth of Morality (CUP, 2001). In addition, he has edited several collections and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, largely in the areas of metaethics and moral psychology. Stuart Brock is a Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington. He received his PhD from Princeton in 2002, and subsequently taught at Western Washington University. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on fiction and fictionalism. He is co-author of A Critical Introduction to Fictionalism (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Realism and Antirealism (Routledge, 2007) and co-editor of Fictional Objects (OUP, 2015).

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