Objectivity

References and Further Reading

	Ayer, A.J. (1936) Language, Truth and Logic, London: Gollancz. (Mentioned in §1 above. Chapter 6 contains a classic statement of non-cognitivism about ethics.)
	Blackburn, S. (1984) Spreading the Word, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Mentioned in §1 above. Chapters 5 and 6 develop a modern version of non-cognitivism.)
	Boghossian, P. (1989) ‘The Rule-Following Considerations’, Mind 98 (392): 507–49. (Comprehensive survey of the literature on the rule-following considerations.)
	Dummett, M. (1978) Truth and Other Enigmas, London: Duckworth. (Mentioned in §2 above. Influential anti-realist book which contains much discussion about the objectivity of truth.)
	Gibbard, A. (1990) Wise Choices, Apt Feelings, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Mentioned in §1 above. Highly sophisticated development of non-cognitivism.)
	Hale, B. (1993) ‘‘Can there be a logic of attitudes?’’, in J. Haldane and C. Wright (eds) Reality, Representation and Projection, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Mentioned in §1 above. Excellent survey of the difficulties faced by non-cognitivism.)
	Hume, D. (1739–40) A Treatise on Human Nature, ed. P.H. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. (Book III contains the classic statement of subjectivism in ethics.)
	Leiter, B. (1997) Objectivity in Law and Morals, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Collection of articles on the nature and role of objectivity in law and morality.)
	Locke, J. (1689) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. P.H. Nidditch, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975. (Bk 1, ch 8 contains the historical precursor of the primary–secondary quality distinction mentioned in §2 above.)
	Mc Dowell, J. (1995) Mind and World, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Mentioned in §3 above. Statement of quietism about objectivity.)
	Smith, M. (1994) The Moral Problem, Oxford: Blackwell. (Excellent study of the problems surrounding the objectivity of morals.)
	Wright, C. (1986) Realism, Meaning, and Truth, Oxford: Blackwell. (Mentioned in §§2 and 3. Develops anti-realist views on objectivity. The introduction provides an excellent survey: probably the best place to start a study of objectivity.)
	Wright, C. (1992) Truth and Objectivity, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Mentioned in §§2 and 3. Further development of anti-realism. Chapter 6 contains a useful discussion of quietism.)