Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The 'Explanatory Gap'
1: Why Take Morality to be Objective?
2: The Gap Opens: Evolution and our Capacity for Moral
Knowledge
Part II: Secular Responses
3: Moral Quasi-Realism: Simon Blackburn and Allan Gibbard
4: Procedures and Reasons: Tim Scanlon and Christine Korsgaard
5: Natural Goodness: Philippa Foot
6: Natural Goodness and 'Second Nature': John McDowell and David
Wiggins
Part III: Theism
7: From Goodness to God: Closing the Explanatory Gap
8: Purpose without Theism? Axiarchism and Neoplatonism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Angus Ritchie studied Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, both
as an undergraduate and a doctoral student. In between, he served
as an Anglican priest in east London, where he now directs the
Contextual Theology Centre. He is involved in research for the
University of Notre Dame on the role of religious communities, and
religious reasoning in public life. He is Assistant Chaplain at
Keble College, Oxford and a Visiting Research Fellow at the
University of East
London.
This is an excellent book, well worth reading. It does the
discipline an important service by laying out elegantly and
succinctly the arguments in favor of the thesis that a theistic
explanation of our capacity to track moral truth is more successful
than its rivals.
*John E. Hare, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*
a powerful and organized study
*John Cottingham, The TLS*
This book will be of interest to anyone who wants a survey of
positions in secular meta-ethics, philosophers interested in
exploring the dilemma that Richie sets up alongside his criticisms
of the central figures in secular moral philosophy, and analytical
theologians interested in a defence of theism.
*Sean Larsen, Theology*
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