This volume presents 12 original papers on the idea that moral objectivity is to be understood in terms of a suitably constructed social point of view that all can accept. The contributors offer new perspectives, some sympathetic and some critical, on constructivist understandings of morality and reason
This volume presents twelve original papers on the idea that moral objectivity is to be understood in terms of a suitably constructed social point of view that all can accept. The contributors offer new perspectives, some sympathetic and some critical, on constructivist understandings - Kantian or otherwise - of morality and reason.
Introduction / James Lenman and Yonatan Shemmer -- Constructivism about normativity : some pitfalls / R. Jay Wallace -- Coming to terms with contingency : Humean constructivism about practical reason / Sharon Street -- Constructing Protagorean objectivity / Aaron James -- Constructivism, agency, and the problem of alignment / Michael E. Bratman -- A puzzle for constructivism and how to solve it / Dale Dorsey -- Constructivism and the argument from autonomy / Robert Stern -- Kantian constructivism : something old, something new / Michael Ridge -- Constructing coherence / Yonatan Shemmer -- A problem for ambitious metanormative constructivism / Nadeem J.Z. Hussain -- Constructivism and wise judgment / Valerie Tiberius -- Expressivism and constructivism / James Lenman -- The appeal and limits of constructivism / T.M. Scanlon
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