Benjamin De Mesel is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) at KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of several articles on Wittgenstein and moral philosophy, and of The Later Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy (2018).
Oskari Kuusela is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Struggle against Dogmatism: Wittgenstein and the Concept of Philosophy (Harvard UP, 2008), Key Terms in Ethics (2010), and Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy (2018).
This book features essays from leading scholars who, rather than taking a strictly exegetical approach, show how discussions in moral philosophy can benefit from Wittgenstein's later philosophical work.
Introduction
Oskari Kuusela and Benjamin De Mesel
1. Logical-linguistic Method in Moral Philosophy: Resolving Problems from Iris Murdoch and Bernard Williams with Wittgenstein
Oskari Kuusela
2. Moral Concepts, 'Natural Facts' and Naturalism: Outline of a Wittgensteinian Moral Philosophy
Edward Harcourt
3. Boundless Nature: Virtue Ethics, Wittgenstein and Unrestricted Naturalism
Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen
4. Between Tradition and Criticism: The 'Uncodifiability' of the Normative
Sabina Lovibond
5. Rule-Following, Moral Realism and Non-Cognitivism Revisited
Alex Miller
6. Are Moral Judgments Semantically Uniform? A Wittgensteinian Approach to the Cognitivism - Non-Cognitivism Debate
Benjamin De Mesel
7. Truth in Ethics: Williams and Wiggins
Cora Diamond
8. Reasons to Be Good?
Lars Hertzberg
9. Hitting Moral Bedrock
Jeremy Johnson
10. Our Fellow Creatures
Craig Taylor
11. Comments on a Contested Comparison: Race and Animals
Alice Crary
12. The Ethical and the Political the Dilemma of Winch's Vere
Lynette Reid