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A Murdochian Metaethics

A Murdochian Metaethics

10 January 2022By Cathy MasonBlog

An account of the second-order commitments on the nature of the ethical realm that underlie Murdoch’s thinking. In developing this systematic framework, I hope to shed light on various long-standing problems for contemporary moral philosophy regarding the nature of moral knowledge, moral motivation and moral objectivity.

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