The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars

ISBN-13: 9781032094205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 370 str.

Jeremy Randel Koons

Opis

Within Sellars’s ethical theory lie answers to a number of pressing questions. In resolving questions, and combining Sellars’s work with the latest work, this book presents a strikingly original and comprehensive theory that has much to contribute to contemporary debates in ethics and metaethics.

Spis treści

Introduction: Situating Sellars’s Ethical Theory in the Contemporary Landscape　　

Chapter 1: Sellars’s Synoptic Vision

Chapter 2: A New Naturalism

Chapter 3: Moral Judgments as Shared Intentions

Chapter 4: What Are Sellarsian We-Intentions?

Chapter 5: Practical Reasoning and the Logic of Intentions

Chapter 6: Material Practical Inference

Chapter 7: Cooperative Rationality and We-Intentions

Chapter 8: Defeasible Rules and the Particularist Challenge

Chapter 9: Rules, Pattern-Governed Behavior, and Collective Attitudes

Chapter 10: Moral Motivation 1—Against the Humean Account

Chapter 11: Moral Motivation 2—Sellars’s Kantian Account

Chapter 12: Against Moral Foundationalism

Chapter 13: Categorical Validity and the Necessity of Community

Chapter 14: Sellars’s Mistaken Formalism

Chapter 15: Sellars’s Ethical Naturalism

O autorze

Jeremy Randel Koons is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He has published widely in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, and other areas. His most recent book, The Normative and the Natural (co-authored with Michael P. Wolf) appeared in 2016.