Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? Can it be anything but luck when our beliefs are true? Kieran Setiya confronts these questions in their most compelling and articulate forms, and argues that if there is objective ethical knowledge, human nature is its source.

Kieran Setiya is Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works in action theory, epistemology, and ethics, and is the author of Reasons without Rationalism (Princeton University Press, 2007).

• Contents


• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: Disagreement


• 2: Reliability


• 3: Knowledge


• 4: Human Nature


• Bibliography


• Index