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1、MoralEpistEMologyHowdoweknowrightfromwrong?Doweevenhavemoralknowledge?MoralEpistemologystudiestheseandrelatedquestionsconcerningourunderstandingofvirtueandvice.Itisoneofphilosophy’sperennialproblems,reachingbacktoPlato,Aristotle,Aquinas,Locke,Hume,andKant,andhasrecentl
2、ybeenthesubjectofintensedebateasaresultoffindingsindevelopmentalandsocialpsychology.Inthisoutstandingintroductiontothesubject,AaronZimmermancoversthefollowingkeytopics:•whatismoralepistemology?Whatareitsmethods?IncludesadiscussionofSocrates,Gettier,andcontemporarytheor
3、iesofknowledge•skepticismaboutmoralknowledgebasedontheanthropologicalrecordofdeepandpersistentmoraldisagreement,includingcontextualism•moralnihilism,includingdebatesconcerningGodandmoralityandtherela-tionbetweenmoralknowledgeandourmotivesandreasonstoactmorally•epistemi
4、cmoralskepticism,intuitionism,andthepossibilityofinferring“ought”from“is,”discussingtheviewsofLocke,Hume,Kant,Ross,Audi,Thomson,Harman,Sturgeon,andmanyothers•howchildrenacquiremoralconceptsandbecomemorereliablejudges•criticismsofthosewhowouldreducemoralknowledgetovalue
5、-neutralknowledgeorattempttoreplacemoralbeliefwithemotion.ThroughoutthebookZimmermanarguesthatourbeliefinmoralknowledgecansurviveskepticalchallenges.HealsodrawsonarichrangeofexamplesfromPlato’sMenoandDickens’DavidCopperfieldtoBernardMadoffandSaddamHussein.Includingchap
6、tersummariesandannotatedfurtherreadingattheendofeachchapter,MoralEpistemologyisessentialreadingforallstudentsofethics,epistemology,andmoralpsychology.AaronZimmermanisanAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara.Hisresearchisfocusedontheinter
7、sectionofthought,language,andreason,andhealsowritesandteachesonDavidHume’sphilosophicalwork.NewproblemsofphilosophyseriesEditor:JoséLuisBermúdezTheNewProblemsofPhilosophyseriesprovidesaccessibleandengagingsurveysofthemostimportantproblemsincontemporaryphilosophy.Eachbo
8、okexamineseitheratopicorathemethathasemergedonthephilosophicallandscapeinrecentyears,oralongstandingproblemrefreshedi
