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Sarah McGrath is a Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. She has written on a variety of topics, including metaphysics and moral epistemology. Her 2019 book, Moral Knowledge (OUP) defends a view of moral knowledge on which moral knowledge has the same potential sources and vulnerabilities as non-moral knowledge.
Jan 22, 2021 · Sarah McGrath provides novel answers to these questions and many others, as she investigates the possibilities, sources, and characteristic vulnerabilities of moral knowledge. She also considers whether there is anything wrong with simply outsourcing moral questions to a moral expert and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the method of equilibrium as an account of how we make up our ...
Dec 11, 2020 · McGrath’s impressive book, Moral Knowledge, mounts a persuasive case for the defence. The book begins with some moral propositions that she believes to be true and known by many people: Rape is wrong. Slavery in the antebellum South was unjust. One shouldn’t encourage children to smoke cigarettes.
Sarah McGrath received an M.A. in philosophy from Tufts University in 1997 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from M.I.T. in 2002. She joined the Princeton faculty in Fall 2007, after being an assistant professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, from 2002-2005, and at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, from 2005-2007. Her primary areas of
2019. Soames and Moore on method in ethics and epistemology. S McGrath, T Kelly. Philosophical Studies 172, 1661-1670. , 2015. 3. 2015. Articles 1–20. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University - Cited by 1,448 - Ethics - Metaphysics.
Oct 1, 2020 · Reviews ›. Moral Knowledge. Moral Knowledge. Sarah McGrath, Moral Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 2019, 218pp., $65.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198805410. Reviewed by David Phillips, University of Houston. 2020.10.01. In the introduction to the book, Sarah McGrath explains her key aims. She has an overall working hypothesis: moral knowledge can be ...
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But in Moral Knowledge, Sarah McGrath clearly and powerfully argues that we can acquire moral knowledge in all the ways we come by ordinary empirical knowledge. Just as I can know that it’s now raining by perception (seeing and feeling the raindrops), by inference (the people outside are using umbrellas), or by testimony (my mother outside is texting me about the weather), so too can I gain ...
