Morality without Foundations: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism by Mark Timmons

by Mark Timmons

In Morality Without Foundations, Mark Timmons investigates fundamental meta-ethical questions about the meaning, truth, and justification of moral thought and discourse. He defends an irrealist metaethical position that he calls assertoric non-descriptivism, according to which moral judgments make genuine assertions but they are nevertheless not used to describe or report moral facts. Timmons completes his view by developing a contextualist moral epistemology.

Genres: Philosophy

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First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Dr. Mark Timmons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. Dr. Timmons has published extensively in the fields of ethics and epistemology.