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Morality in a Natural World
The central philosophical challenge of metaethics is to account for the
normativity of moral judgment without abandoning or pro-
mising moral realism. In Morality in a Natural World,David Copp defends
aversion of naturalistic moral realism and argues that it can modate
the normativity of morality. Largely because of the difficulty in account-
ing for normativity, naturalistic moral realism is often thought to face
special metaphysical, epistemological, and semantic problems. In the ten
essays included in this volume, Copp defends solutions to these problems.
Three of the essays are new, while seven have previously been published.
All of them are concerned with the viability of naturalistic and realistic
accounts of the nature of morality or, more generally, with the viability
of naturalistic and realistic accounts of reasons.
David Copp is professor of philosophy at the University of Florida. He
is the author of Morality, Normativity and Society and has edited and co-
edited several volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory.
He served for many years as an editor of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy
and is currently an associate editor of Ethics and the subject editor for
metaethics of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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cambridge studies in philosophy
General Editors
Jonathan Lowe (University of Durham)
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)
Advisory Editors
Jonathan Dancy (University of Texas, Austin)
John Haldane (University of St. Andrews)
Gilbert Harman (Princeton University)
Frank Jackson (Australian National University)
William G.