David K. Chan
Springer Netherlands
0e druk, 2010
9789048177462
Moral Psychology Today
Essays on Values, Rational Choice, and the Will
Specificaties
Paperback, 250 blz.
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Engels
Springer Netherlands |
0e druk, 2010
ISBN13: 9789048177462
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Philosophical Studies Series
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Samenvatting
This volume is an edited collection of original papers on the theme of "Values, Rational Choice, and the Will". The editor is a Stanford-trained moral philosopher, and the organizer of a conference held on April 1-3, 2004. The conference succeeded in bringing together a wide range of essays that dealt with most of the central questions of moral philosophy today, in both normative ethics and meta-ethics, theoretical and applied ethics, and especially in moral psychology.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9789048177462
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:250
Uitgever:Springer Netherlands
Druk:0
Inhoudsopgave
Meta-ethics of Values.- Moral Realism, Meta-Ethical Pyrrhonism and Naturalism.- Buck-passing Personal Values.- Reason and Choice.- Volitions, Comparative Value Judgments, and Choice.- The Insignificance of Choice.- Desire and Intention.- The Indeterminacy of Desire and Practical Reason.- The Myth of Objectively Alien Desires.- On the Intelligibility of Bad Acts.- After Anscombe.- Practical Reason.- The Limits of Teleology.- Motivation to the Means.- Thresholds, Vagueness and the Psychology of Small Improvements.- Freedom and Moral Agency.- Taking Liberty with Humean Necessity: Compatibilism and Contingency.- Rational Choice and Evolutionary Fit.
