Toward a Pragmatist Metaethics by Diana Heney

By Diana Heney

In our present social panorama, ethical questions―about monetary disparity, disadvantaging biases, and scarcity―are rightly receiving realization with a feeling of urgency. This ebook argues that classical pragmatism bargains a compelling and worthy account of our engagement with ethical existence. the foremost arguments are first, broader interpreting of the pragmatist culture than is generally tried in the context of moral concept is critical; and moment, that this wide interpreting bargains assets that allow us to maneuver ahead in modern debates approximately fact and ideas in ethical lifestyles. the 1st argument is made via demonstrating that there's an arc of theoretical harmony that stretches from key founders of pragmatism―Charles Sanders Peirce and William James―through the paintings of John Dewey and Clarence Irving Lewis. the second one argument is made by way of attractive with modern debates about the truth-status of the judgments and assertions made in usual ethical discourse, in addition to the position and nature of ethical principles. Toward a Pragmatist Metaethics will be of curiosity to students of yank philosophy, American highbrow background, and ethical and political theorists, in addition to somebody attracted to the contours and calls for of shared ethical discourse.

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By Diana Heney

In our present social panorama, ethical questions―about monetary disparity, disadvantaging biases, and scarcity―are rightly receiving realization with a feeling of urgency. This ebook argues that classical pragmatism bargains a compelling and worthy account of our engagement with ethical existence. the foremost arguments are first, broader interpreting of the pragmatist culture than is generally tried in the context of moral concept is critical; and moment, that this wide interpreting bargains assets that allow us to maneuver ahead in modern debates approximately fact and ideas in ethical lifestyles. the 1st argument is made via demonstrating that there's an arc of theoretical harmony that stretches from key founders of pragmatism―Charles Sanders Peirce and William James―through the paintings of John Dewey and Clarence Irving Lewis. the second one argument is made by way of attractive with modern debates about the truth-status of the judgments and assertions made in usual ethical discourse, in addition to the position and nature of ethical principles. Toward a Pragmatist Metaethics will be of curiosity to students of yank philosophy, American highbrow background, and ethical and political theorists, in addition to somebody attracted to the contours and calls for of shared ethical discourse.

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For example, on a Peircean view, the slave boy from the Meno is not learning via recollection of innate knowledge, but really learning via new experience. The slave boy can be described as experimenting when he tries the hypothesis that faced with two squares, the second being double the size of the first, a line bisecting the second square would form triangles with a hypotenuse double the length of the hypotenuse of triangles that would be formed by bisecting the first square in the same manner.

The project of sorting out how theoretical ethics operates to determine what ideals serve the end of concrete reasonableness is left dangling; the potential for serious work in ethics to serve us in good stead when we do face moral dilemmas or Jamesian genuine options is not explored. If my interpretation is plausible and Peirce’s late struggles to separate philosophy and practice were a struggle over the place of ethics in his architectonic, then the project of developing the pragmatist position in metaethics might be where Peirce was headed towards the end of his intellectual development.

383, 1877). Peirce concludes that if we are to overcome the dissatisfaction and the persistent return to doubt that comes with the exercise of these methods, we must find a method that meets our own standards as belief-acquirers. We may start out by seeking simply to acquire beliefs, but will find ourselves unable to secure such beliefs in a lasting way. In adopting inquiry as the method best-suited to providing the stability we seek, we set out to acquire true beliefs—those that will stand up to future experience, come what may.

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