The possibility of metaethics

Boston University Law Review

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 479-496

  Shafer Landau, Russ ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 77954341794     PISSN: 00068047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (59)

1. RONALD DWORKIN, JUSTICE FOR HEDGEHOGS (forthcoming 2010) (Apr. 17, 2009 manuscript at 16-63, on file with the Boston University Law Review).
2. See generally SIMON BLACKBURN, ESSAYS IN QUASI-REALISM (1993);
3. SIMON BLACKBURN, RULING PASSIONS (1998);
4. ALLAN GIBBARD, THINKING HOW TO LIVE (2003);
5. ALLAN GIBBARD, WISE CHOICES, AFT FEELINGS (1990).
6. Ronald Dworkin, Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Believe It, 25 PHIL. & PUB. AFF. 87 (1996).
7. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 20).
8. Id.
9. Id. (manuscript at 9).
10. Id. (manuscript at 20).
11. Id. (manuscript at 19).
12. Id. (manuscript at 19, 21-22, 24, 39, 43, 45-48, 50).
13. Id. (manuscript at 21).
14. Id. (manuscript at 42).
15. DAVID HUME, A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE, bk. 3, pt. 1, §1, at 469 (L. A. SelbyBigge ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2d ed. 1978) (1740).
16. See DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 19).
17. Id.
18. Id. (manuscript at 26).
19. Id. (manuscript at 19).
20. Id. (manuscript at 26,43).
21. Id. (manuscript at 9).
22. HUME, supra note 12, at 469.
23. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 43).
24. HUME, supra note 12, at 457.
25. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 43).
26. See J.L. MACHE, ETHICS: INVENTING RIGHT AND WRONG 15-35,48-49 (1977).
27. Id. at 36-42,48-49.
28. See DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 21-25,42-45).
29. Id. (manuscript at 23).
30. Id.
31. Id.
32. See, e.g., GILBERT HARMAN, THE NATURE OF MORALITY 9 (1977) (distinguishing the role of observational evidence in morality and science by recognizing that "there can be no explanatory chain between moral principles and particular observings in the way that there can be such a chain between scientific principles and particular observings. Conceived as an explanatory theory, morality, unlike science, seems to be cut off from observation").
33. See id. at 10.
34. Id. at 131-32. 32 Id.
35. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 21).
36. BLACKBURN, supra note 2, at 220-21;
37. GIBBARD, supra note 2, at 316-27;
38. MARK TIMMONS, MORALTTY WITHOUT FOUNDATIONS: A DEFENSE OF ETHICAL CONTEXTUAUSM 5-7 (1999).
39. RICHARD JOYCE, THE MYTH OF MORALITY 1-29(2001).
40. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 42).
41. See id. (manuscript at 42-43).
42. Id.
43. Id. (manuscript at 43).
44. Id.
45. Id. (manuscript at 31).
46. See MACKIE, supra note 23, at 41.
47. Id.
48. Id. at 35.
49. Id. at 48-49,199-200.
50. See supra text accompanying notes 42-43.
51. MACKIE, supra note 23, at 29.
52. JOYCE, supra note 35, at 35-39.
53. See MACKIE, supra note 23, at 29.
54. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 45).
55. Id. (manuscript at 51-52).
56. See MACHE, supra note 23, at 38.
57. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 51-52).
58. See id. (manuscript at 52).
59. See supra text accompanying notes 52-54.