13 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
New Zealand philosopher who has worked on Hume's is-ought gap, conspiracy theories, and metaethics.
American philosopher who has defended moral realism and developed a perfectionistic version of consequentialism, drawing on Mill.
Frank Jackson's defense of conceptual analysis as the method linking ordinary discourse to serious metaphysics, arguing that philosophy must pass through conceptual claims before reaching ontological ones.
G. E. Moore was a British philosopher whose Principia Ethica launched 20th-century analytic ethics by arguing that 'good' is an indefinable non-natural property.
British philosopher who has worked on the problem of evil, the moral significance of evolutionary debunking, and population ethics.
Australian philosopher who has argued for a perspectivalist account of time's arrow, advocated retrocausality in quantum mechanics, and developed a pragmatist metaethics.
American philosopher who has contributed to the analysis of mental content, self-knowledge, and has written a widely-read critique of epistemic relativism.
American philosopher who has developed sophisticated consequentialism and a naturalistic moral realism — contributing centrally to debates about the relationship between facts and values.
British philosopher who has worked on the nature of normative reasons, practical and theoretical rationality, and the relationship between ethics and metaethics.
American philosopher who developed a sophisticated version of rule utilitarianism grounded in an informed desire account of welfare.
American philosopher who developed the Darwinian dilemma — evolutionary debunking of moral realism — and defends a constructivist metaethics.
American philosopher who has developed the second-person standpoint as the foundation of morality — moral obligations are fundamentally addressed from one person to another.
American philosopher who has worked on moral skepticism, informal logic, applied ethics, and the neuroscience of morality.