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Reading Parfit: On What Matters is an outstanding overview and assessment of Parfit¿s monumental work by a team of international contributors, and includes replies by Parfit himself. It discusses central features of Parfit¿s book, including the structure and nature of reasons, the ideas underlying moral principles, the relationship between consequentialism, contractualism and Kantian deontology, and many important positions and arguments in cu...

An international team of experts explores the distinction between 'thin' concepts (general, evaluative terms like 'good' and 'bad') and 'thick' concepts (more specific concepts, such as 'brave', or 'rude'). Their essays touch on key debates in metaethics about the evaluative and normative, and raise fascinating questions about how language works.

The descriptions 'good' and 'bad' are examples of thin concepts, as opposed to 'kind' or 'cruel' which are thick concepts. Simon Kirchin provides one of the first full-length studies of the crucial distinction between 'thin' and 'thick' concepts, which is fundamental to many debates in ethics, aesthetics and epistemology

Reading Parfit: On What Matters is an outstanding overview and assessment of Parfit¿s monumental work by a team of international contributors, and includes replies by Parfit himself. It discusses central features of Parfit¿s book, including the structure and nature of reasons, the ideas underlying moral principles, the relationship between consequentialism, contractualism and Kantian deontology, and many important positions and arguments in cu...

Metaethics is an engaging and argumentative textbook introducing advanced students to the cutting edge of the debate in one of the most exciting areas of contemporary philosophy. Kirchin covers key topics, including varieties of moral realism, error theory, noncognitivism, and a brand new position, metaethical pluralism.

Metaethics is an engaging and argumentative textbook introducing advanced students to the cutting edge of the debate in one of the most exciting areas of contemporary philosophy. Kirchin covers key topics, including varieties of moral realism, error theory, noncognitivism, and a brand new position, metaethical pluralism.