In thirteen new essays and an introduction, Motivational Internalism collects a structured overview of current debates about motivational internalism and examines the nature of and evidence for forms of internalism, internalism's relevance for moral psychology and moral semantics, and ways of bridging the gap between internalist and externalist positions.

• Preface


• Contributors


• 1 Motivational internalism: Contemporary debates


• Gunnar Björnsson, Caj Strandberg, Ragnar Francén Olinder, John Eriksson, Fredrik Björklund


• I. Evidence


• Introduction to Part I: Evidence for and against motivational internalism


• 2 Evaluative judgements, judgments about reasons, and motivations


• Michael Smith


• 3 Motivational externalism: Formulation, methodology, rationality and indifference


• Nick Zangwill


• 4 An empirical case for motivational internalism


• Jesse Prinz


• 5 Unconditional motivational internalism and Hume's lesson


• Daniel Eggers


• 6 What's required for motivation by principle?


• Jeanette Kennett


• II. Relevance


• Introduction to Part II: The relevance of motivational internalism


• 7 Internalism: Cui bono?


• Michael Ridge


• 8 Pure expressivism and motivational internalism


• Teemu Toppinen


• 9 Can reasons fundamentalism answer the normative question?


• James Dreier


• 10 Naturalistic Moral Realism and Motivational Internalism, From Negative to Positive


• Jon Tresan


• III. Bridging the gap


• Introduction to part III: Bridging the gap between internalism and externalism


• 11 Detecting value with motivational responses


• Sigrún Svavarsdóttir


• 12 Intuition and belief in moral motivation


• Antti Kauppinen


• 13 Tempered internalism and the participatory stance


• Kate Manne


• 14 Two functions of moral language: Rethinking the amoralist


• John Thomas Mumm


• Index

Gunnar Björnsson, Caj Strandberg, Ragnar Francén Olinder, John Eriksson, and Fredrik Björklund have published widely on issues related to the volume published. Their papers have appeared in journals such as Mind, Ethics, Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Noûs, Philosophical Studies, Journal of Ethics, and Australasian Journal of Philosophy.