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Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Volume 3
Av David Lewis, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
455 kr
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This volume is devoted to Lewis's work in ethics and social philosophy. Topics covered include the logic of obligation and permission; decision theory and its relation to the idea that beliefs might play the motivating role of desires; a subjectivist analysis of value; dilemmas in virtue ethics; …
Practical Reality
E-bok, 2000
587 kr
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Practical Reality is about the relation between the reason why we do things and the reasons why we should. It maintains that current philosophical orthodoxy bowdlerizes this relation, making it impossible to understand how anyone can act for a good reason. In order to understand this, Dancy claims, …
Practical Shape
A Theory of Practical Reasoning
E-bok, 2018
245 kr
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Everyone allows that we can reason to a new belief from beliefs that we already have. Aristotle thought that we could also reason from beliefs to action. Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning establishes this possibility of reasoning to action, in a way that allows also for reasoning to …
Practical Shape
A Theory of Practical Reasoning
E-bok, 2018
245 kr
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Everyone allows that we can reason to a new belief from beliefs that we already have. Aristotle thought that we could also reason from beliefs to action. Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning establishes this possibility of reasoning to action, in a way that allows also for reasoning to …
Practical Thought
Essays on Reason, Intuition, and Action
E-bok, 2021
1420 kr
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Practical Thought: Essays on Reasons, Intuition, and Action presents a selection of Jonathan Dancy''s most important philosophical essays since the late 1970s, focusing on the central themes of his work: metaethics, moral metaphysics, the theory of motivation, and the British Intuitionists. The …
Practical Thought
Essays on Reason, Intuition, and Action
E-bok, 2021
1420 kr
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Practical Thought: Essays on Reasons, Intuition, and Action presents a selection of Jonathan Dancy''s most important philosophical essays since the late 1970s, focusing on the central themes of his work: metaethics, moral metaphysics, the theory of motivation, and the British Intuitionists. The …
Practical Reality
Inbunden, 2000
1151 kr
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Practical Reality is about the relation between the reason why we do things and the reasons why we should. It maintains that current philosophical orthodoxy bowdlerises this relation, making it impossible to understand how anyone can act for a good reason. In order to understand this, Dancy claims, …
Perceptual Knowledge
Häftad, 1988
540 kr
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Distinguished philosophers outline their ideas on the subject of epistemology and the theory of perception, introducing readers to the various problems that face a successful theory of perceptual knowledge.
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Av George Berkeley, Jonathan Dancy
Häftad, 1998
545 kr
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The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, giving …
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Av George Berkeley, Jonathan Dancy
Häftad, 1998
557 kr
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The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, giving …
Practical Shape
A Theory of Practical Reasoning
Inbunden, 2018
608 kr
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Everyone allows that we can reason to a new belief from beliefs that we already have. Aristotle thought that we could also reason from beliefs to action. Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning establishes this possibility of reasoning to action, in a way that allows also for reasoning to …
Practical Thought
Essays on Reason, Intuition, and Action
Inbunden, 2021
1646 kr
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Practical Thought: Essays on Reasons, Intuition, and Action presents a selection of Jonathan Dancy's most important philosophical essays since the late 1970s, focusing on the central themes of his work: metaethics, moral metaphysics, the theory of motivation, and the British Intuitionists. The …
Practical Shape
A Theory of Practical Reasoning
Häftad, 2020
349 kr
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Everyone allows that we can reason to a new belief from beliefs that we already have. Aristotle thought that we could also reason from beliefs to action. Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning establishes this possibility of reasoning to action, in a way that allows also for reasoning to …
Lectures on Ethics, 1946
Av P. F. Strawson, Jonathan Dancy
Inbunden, 2024
1162 kr
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This volume presents a series of lectures given by P. F. Strawson to final-year undergraduates at the University of Wales, Bangor, in the autumn term of 1946. Strawson was appointed to a lectureship at Bangor immediately after his military service in World War Two; he held this post for only one …
Lectures on Ethics, 1946
Av P. F. Strawson, Jonathan Dancy
E-bok, 2024
1045 kr
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This volume presents a series of lectures given by P. F. Strawson to final-year undergraduates at the University of Wales, Bangor, in the autumn term of 1946. Strawson was appointed to a lectureship at Bangor immediately after his military service in World War Two; he held this post for only one …
Lectures on Ethics, 1946
Av P. F. Strawson, Jonathan Dancy
E-bok, 2024
1045 kr
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This volume presents a series of lectures given by P. F. Strawson to final-year undergraduates at the University of Wales, Bangor, in the autumn term of 1946. Strawson was appointed to a lectureship at Bangor immediately after his military service in World War Two; he held this post for only one …
Practical Reality
Häftad, 2002
968 kr
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Practical Reality is about the relation between the reason why we do things and the reasons why we should. It maintains that current philosophical orthodoxy bowdlerizes this relation, making it impossible to understand how anyone can act for a good reason. In order to understand this, Dancy claims, …
Ethics Without Principles
Inbunden, 2004
2306 kr
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Jonathan Dancy presents a long-awaited exposition and defence of particularism in ethics, a view with which he has been associated for twenty years. He argues that the traditional link between morality and principles, or between being moral and having principles, is little more than a mistake. The …
Ethics Without Principles
Häftad, 2006
732 kr
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Jonathan Dancy presents a long-awaited exposition and defence of particularism in ethics, a view with which he has been associated for twenty years. He argues that the traditional link between morality and principles, or between being moral and having principles, is little more than a mistake. The …
Ethics and the A Priori
Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics
Av Michael Smith, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
504 kr
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Michael Smith has written a series of seminal essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents. This long awaited collection comprises some …
The Correspondence Theory of Truth
An Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication
Av Andrew Newman, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
618 kr
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This work presents a version of the correspondence theory of truth based on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Russell's theory of truth and discusses related metaphysical issues such as predication, facts and propositions. Like Russell and one prominent interpretation of the Tractatus it assumes a …
Living without Free Will
Av Derk Pereboom, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
413 kr
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Most people assume that, even though some degenerative or criminal behavior may be caused by influences beyond our control, ordinary human actions are not similarly generated, but rather are freely chosen, and we can be praiseworthy or blameworthy for them. A less popular and more radical claim is …
Theories of Vagueness
Av Rosanna Keefe, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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846 kr
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Most expressions in natural language are vague. But what is the best semantic treatment of terms like 'heap', 'red' and 'child'? And what is the logic of arguments involving this kind of vague expression? These questions are receiving increasing philosophical attention, and in this book, first …
Uneasy Virtue
Av Julia Driver, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
699 kr
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The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have moral virtue one must have practical wisdom - the ability to deliberate well and to see what is morally relevant in a given context. Julia Driver …
Practical Rules
When We Need Them and When We Don't
Av Alan H. Goldman, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
605 kr
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Rules proliferate; some are kept with a bureaucratic stringency bordering on the absurd, while others are manipulated and ignored in ways that injure our sense of justice. Under what conditions should we make exceptions to rules, and when should they be followed despite particular circumstances? …
Other Times
Philosophical Perspectives on Past, Present and Future
Av David Cockburn, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
487 kr
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We view things from a certain position in time: in our language, thought, feelings and actions, we draw distinctions between what has happened, is happening, and will happen. Frequently, approaches to this feature of our lives - those seen in disputes between tensed and tenseless theories, between …
Reason and Value
Av E. J. Bond, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
569 kr
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The relations between reason, motivation and value present problems which, though ancient, remain intractable. If values are objective and rational how can they move us and if they are dependent on our contingent desires how can they be rational? E. J. Bond makes a bold attack on this dilemma. The …
Emotion
Av William Lyons, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
512 kr
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In this study William Lyons presents a sustained and coherent theory of the emotions, and one which draws extensively on the work of psychologists and physiologists in the area. Dr Lyons starts by giving a thorough and critical survey of other principal theories, before setting out his own …
Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics
Av David Owen Brink, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
569 kr
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This book is a systematic and constructive treatment of a number of traditional issues at the foundation of ethics, the possibility and nature of moral knowledge, the relationship between the moral point of view and a scientific or naturalistic world view, the nature of moral value and obligation, …
Natural Agency
An Essay on the Causal Theory of Action
Av John Bishop, Ernest Sosa m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1791 kr
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From a moral point of view we think of ourselves as capable of responsible actions. From a scientific point of view we think of ourselves as animals whose behaviour, however highly evolved, conforms to natural scientific laws. Natural Agency argues that these different perspectives can be …
