Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life: Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics b

Description: Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life by Peg O’Connor Moral philosophy, like much of philosophy generally, has been bedeviled by an obsession with seeking a secure epistemological foundation and with dichotomies between mind and body, fact and value, nature and normativity. This title develops an approach to the grounding of ethics (metaethics) that looks at interconnected nature of social practices. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Moral philosophy, like much of philosophy generally, has been bedeviled by an obsession with seeking secure epistemological foundations and with dichotomies between mind and body, fact and value, subjectivity and objectivity, nature and normativity. These are still alive today in the realism-versus-antirealism debates in ethics. Peg OConnor draws inspiration from the later Wittgensteins philosophy to sidestep these pitfalls and develop a new approach to the grounding of ethics (i.e., metaethics) that looks to the interconnected nature of social practices, most especially those that Wittgenstein called "language games." These language games provide structure and stability to our moral lives while they permit the flexibility to accommodate change in moral understandings and attitudes.To this end, OConnor deploys new metaphors from architecture and knitting to describe her approach as "felted stabilism," which locates morality in a large set of overlapping and crisscrossing language games such as engaging in moral inquiry, seeking justifications for our beliefs and actions, formulating reasons for actions, making judgments, disagreeing with other people or dissenting from dominant norms, manifesting moral understandings, and taking and assigning responsibility. Author Biography Peg OConnor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is the author of Oppression and Responsibility: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Practices and Moral Theory (Penn State, 2002) and co-editor (with Naomi Scheman) of Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Penn State, 2002). Table of Contents ContentsAcknowledgmentsProlegomenon to Any Future Feminist MetaethicsList of Abbreviations1.Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics? Revising the Big Book2.Does the Fabric of the World Include Moral Properties? Realist/Antirealist Debates3.Neither a Realist nor an Antirealist Be4.Felted Contextualism: Heterogeneous Stability5.Normativity and Grammar6.Philosophical Rags and Mice: Changing the Subject in Moral Epistemology7.Stability and Objectivity: The Felted WorldBibliographyIndex Review "Peg OConnor offers a compelling Wittgensteinian alternative to the realist-versus-antirealist debates in metaethics. Grounded in deep conventionalism, she argues that our world is not one part natural and one part social, but rather is a shared world where these are intermingled and tangled, resulting in ways of acting and conventions that are inescapably bound together. In a field that remains paralyzed by whether there exist objective moral values, OConnors work offers a breath of fresh air."—Wendy L. Lee, Bloomsburg University"In this original work OConnor develops a genuinely novel approach to metaethics. OConnors views are radical, since she replaces both realism and antirealism with a Wittgensteinian approach that firmly relocates metaethics within the context of practical ongoing moral concerns. This is an exciting and important book."—Alessandra Tanesini, Cardiff University Long Description Moral philosophy, like much of philosophy generally, has been bedeviled by an obsession with seeking secure epistemological foundations and with dichotomies between mind and body, fact and value, subjectivity and objectivity, nature and normativity. These are still alive today in the realism-versus-antirealism debates in ethics. Peg OConnor draws inspiration from the later Wittgensteins philosophy to sidestep these pitfalls and develop a new approach to the grounding of ethics (i.e., metaethics) that looks to the interconnected nature of social practices, most especially those that Wittgenstein called "language games." These language games provide structure and stability to our moral lives while they permit the flexibility to accommodate change in moral understandings and attitudes. To this end, OConnor deploys new metaphors from architecture and knitting to describe her approach as "felted stabilism," which locates morality in a large set of overlapping and crisscrossing language games such as engaging in moral inquiry, seeking justifications for our beliefs and actions, formulating reasons for actions, making judgments, disagreeing with other people or dissenting from dominant norms, manifesting moral understandings, and taking and assigning responsibility. Review Text "In this original work OConnor develops a genuinely novel approach to metaethics. OConnors views are radical, since she replaces both realism and antirealism with a Wittgensteinian approach that firmly relocates metaethics within the context of practical ongoing moral concerns. This is an exciting and important book." --Alessandra Tanesini, Cardiff University Review Quote "This is an exciting and important book." --Alessandra Tanesini, Cardiff University Details ISBN0271033797 Short Title MORALITY & OUR COMPLICATED FOR Language English ISBN-10 0271033797 ISBN-13 9780271033792 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 170.42 Year 2008 Imprint Pennsylvania State University Press Subtitle Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics Place of Publication Pennsylvania Country of Publication United States Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780271033792 UK Release Date 2008-07-01 NZ Release Date 2008-07-01 US Release Date 2008-07-01 Author Peg OConnor Pages 192 Publisher Pennsylvania State University Press Publication Date 2008-07-01 Alternative 9780271033808 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2008-07-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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