Normativity and the Will: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason

ISBN-13: 9780199287499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 360 str.

R. Jay Wallace

Opis

Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working in these areas. The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and psychological issues in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Themes that are addressed include reason, desire, and the will; responsibility, identification, and emotion; and the relation between morality and other normative domains. Wallace's treatments of these topics are at once sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason, and they articulate and defend a unified framework for thinking about those issues. The volume also features a helpful new introduction.

Recenzje

This collection shows Wallace to be a consummate cartographer of philosophical terrain...There is much to be learned from Wallace's arresting and inventive interventions into many disputes of keen, contemporary interest...it should be noted that Wallace is an engaging and elegant philosophical stylist and, so, these essays are a real pleasure to read.