Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics

Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University. She was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Faculty of Divinity in Edinburgh. She has previously taught in universities including Oxford, Manchester, and UEA. She has been a Visiting Professor in Vancouver, Oslo, Reykjavik, St Andrews, Adelaide, and Edinburgh. Since 2000 she has been Treasurer of the Mind Association, and Associate Editor and Reviews Editor of The Philosophical Quarterly. Her books include Understanding Human Goods (Edinburgh University Press, 2003), Reading Plato's Theaetetus (Hackett, 2005), Ethics and Experience (Acumen, 2009), and Knowing What To Do (OUP, 2014). She has published poetry, including (on her website) a translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia.

Introduction ; 1. Intuition and genealogy ; 2. Scepticism about Intuition ; 3. Obvious intuitions ; 4. Should generalism be our regulative ideal? ; 5. Moral faith and moral reason ; 6. Forgetting the difference between right and wrong ; 7. Factual mistakes, epistemological virtues and moral errors: a study in Augustine's Confessions ; 8. Theory and intuition in a broken world ; 9. Moral certainties ; 10. Self-evidence, theory, and anti-theory ; 11. Literature, moral education, and moral philosophy ; Index