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Belief, Agency, and Knowledge is a study focused on the normative aspects of epistemology. More specifically, it is concerned with the nature of epistemic norms and their relation both to the value of knowledge and to the structure of cognitive agency.

Revised and updated throughout, the second edition of What is this thing called Metaethics? demystifies this important subject and is ideal for students coming to it for the first time.

Revised and updated throughout, the second edition of What is this thing called Metaethics? demystifies this important subject and is ideal for students coming to it for the first time.

Philosophy for Everyone begins by explaining what philosophy is before exploring the questions and issues at the foundation of this important subject. Key topics and their areas of focus include Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Moral Philosophy, Metaphysics, Free Will and Political Philosophy. Designed to be used on the corresponding Introduction to Philosophy online course offered by The University of Edinburgh, this b...

Building on a careful truth-conditionalist semantics for 'ought' considered as a modal word, Chrisman argues that ought-sentences mean what they do neither because of how they describe reality nor because of the noncognitive attitudes they express, but because of their inferential role.

Are moral standards relative? Are there moral facts? What is goodness? If there are moral facts how do we learn about them? These are all questions in metaethics, the branch of ethics that investigates the status of morality, the nature of ethical facts, and the meaning of ethical statements. Beginning with a brief historical overview of metaethics Matthew Chrisman introduces and assesses all the key topics. This book demystifies this importan...