Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability

Uri D. Leibowitz, Neil Sinclair

ISBN 10: 0198778597 / ISBN 13: 9780198778592

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2016

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• Titel: Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0198778597
• ISBN-13: 9780198778592
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Good

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Uri D. Leibowitz studied Physics and Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University in Israel. He earned his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Before joining Nottingham's Department of Philosophy he had taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Cornell College. He has published papers in Noûs, Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Moral Philosophy,and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. His work covers issues in metaethics and normative ethics, the philosophy of science, and ancient philosophy. He has been awarded an AHRC-funded research project on explanation in ethics.

Neil Sinclair studied philosophy at both Cambridge and Oxford before joining the Philosophy Department at the University of Nottingham. His principal research area is metaethics. He has published papers in Philosophical Studies, The Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, and Biology and Philosophy. His work covers issues such as the nature of truth, belief and moral mental content, the evolutionary origins of moral judgement, the logic of moral arguments, moral mind-independence, and the nature of moral explanations. He has been awarded two AHRC-funded research projects: one on moral mental content, and one on explanation in ethics. In 2014 he received a University of Nottingham Lord Dearing Award for outstanding contribution to the development of teaching and learning.