Moral knowledge

by McGrath, Sarah

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Title Statements

Full title :Moral knowledge / Sarah McGrath.

Summary

Compared to other kinds of knowledge, how fragile is our knowledge of morality? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds, in that it cannot be forgotten? What makes reliable evidence in fundamental moral convictions? And what are the associated problems of using testimony as a source of moral knowledge? Sarah McGrath provides novel answers to these questions and many others, as she investigates the possibilities, sources, and characteristic vulnerabilities of moral knowledge. She also considers whether there is anything wrong with simply outsourcing moral questions to a moral expert and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the method of equilibrium as an account of how we make up our mind about moral questions. Ultimately, McGrath concludes that moral knowledge can be acquired in any of the ways in which we acquire ordinary empirical knowledge. Our efforts to acquire and preserve such knowledge, she argues, are subject to frustration in all of the same ways that our efforts to acquire and preserve ordinary empirical knowledge are.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780191843488, 0191843482, 9780192527950, 0192527959, 9780192527967, 0192527967
oclc:on1104064492
LC Classification:BJ37
Dewey Decimal:170

Introduction -- Reflective equilibrium, its virtues and its limits -- Moral knowledge from others -- Observation and experience -- Losing moral knowledge -- Conclusions.