Wise Choices, Apt Feelings - A Theory of Normative Judgement

ISBN-13: 9780198249849 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 360 str.

Allan Gibbard

Opis

This treatise explores what is at issue in narrowly moral questions, and in questions of rational thought and conduct in general. It helps to explain why normative thought and talk so pervade human life, and why our highly social species might have evolved to be gripped by these questions. The author asks how, if his theory is right, we can interpret our normative puzzles, and thus proceed toward finding answers to them.

Recenzje

'First published to considerable acclaim Allan Gibbard's book is now available in paperback. It addresses the relationship between rationality and morality.' Explorations in Knowledge

Spis treści

I. Analyses: 1. The puzzle; 2. Nature and judgment; 3. Analyses broached; 4. Normative psychology; 5. Normative logic; II. Psyche in nature: 6. Natural representation; 7. Moral emotions; III. Normative objectivity: 8. Objectivity: first steps; 9. Normative authority; 10. Parochial judgment; 11. Rationale and warrant; 12. Pragmatic support; 13. Communities of judgment; IV. Moral inquiry: 14. Moral concern; 5. Assessing feelings; 16. Structural questions; 17. Moral system; References; Index