Practical Philosophy – serie
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28 produkter
Why the Law Matters to You
Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity
Inbunden, 2013
2141 kr
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This book presents an answer to the question of why modern legal institutions and the idea of citizenship are important for leading a free life. The majority of views in political and legal philosophy regard the law merely as a useful instrument, employed to render our lives more secure and to …
Explaining Altruism
A Simulation-Based Approach and its Limits
Inbunden, 2008
2271 kr
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Employing computer simulations for the study of the evolution of altruism has been popular since Axelrod's book „The Evolution of Cooperation“. But have the myriads of simulation studies that followed in Axelrod's footsteps really increased our knowledge about the evolution of altruism or …
Pluralistische Gesellschaften und Vertragstheorien
Av Jörg Kühnelt
Inbunden, 2010
1351 kr
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Praktische Gründe
Ein Vergleich Dreier Paradigmatischer Theorien
Häftad, 2003
471 kr
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Für die Moralphilosophie ist eine Theorie praktischer Gründe von zentraler Bedeutung. Ein zentraler Streitpunkt ist dabei die Verbindung zwischen Normativität und Motivation. Endres rekonstruiert kritisch die bedeutenden Positionen von B. Williams, J. McDowell und C. Korsgaard. Die Positionen …
Normativity and Naturalism
Inbunden, 2004
1041 kr
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At the centre of the metaethical debate that took off from G.E. Moore's Principia Ethica (1903) was his critique of ethical naturalism. While Moore's own arguments against ethical naturalism find little acceptance these days, an alternative ground for thinking that ethical properties and facts …
New Science of Politics
Hans Kelsen's Reply to Eric Voegelin's 'New Science of Politics'. A Contribution to the Critique of Ideology
Av Hans Kelsen
Inbunden, 2004
1514 kr
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Eric Voegelin is famous as a philosopher of history and a as one of the most eminent political scientists of the 20th century. His most fundamental work on political theory, the "New Science of Politics, is nowadays considered a classic in ist field. While the "New Science" has always been a very …
Ethics of Humanitarian Interventions
Av Georg Meggle
Inbunden, 2004
2206 kr
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Humanitarian Interventions - that sounds nice; much nicer than wars, battles and use of military force. Foremost, the phrase makes you think of the delivery of sanitary goods, medication, of soup-kitchens. Here we are not supposed to think of interventions of this kind; we have to have humanitarian …
Value Matters
Studies in Axiology
Inbunden, 2004
1351 kr
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For many years value theory has figured high on the agenda of my interests, a fact attested by Introduction to Value Theory published by Prentice Hall in 1969. This interest has continued in recent years inter alia, finding earlier expressions in the articles constituting chapters 2-4 of the …
Keeping Balance
On Desert and Propriety
Av Diana Abad
Inbunden, 2007
1701 kr
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What is desert? The aim of this book is to give an analysis of this notion. Starting from Feinberg's seminal paper, the argument goes on to Chisholm, 18th-century British Rationalism, and Kant, who developed the concept of propriety that is the foundation of the concept of desert and the key to …
Foundations of an Ethics of Belief
Av Anne Meylan
Inbunden, 2013
1669 kr
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In our daily lives we make lots of evaluations of actions. We think that driving above the speed limit is dangerous, that giving up one’s bus seat to the elderly is polite, that stirring eggs with a plastic spoon is neither good nor bad. We understand, too, that we may be praised or blamed for …
Grundlagen der Ethik
Av Peter Schaber, Rafael Hüntelmann
Inbunden, 2003
1441 kr
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Im August 2002 trafen sich Philosophinnen und Philosophen zu einer Tagung in Frankfurt, um über Grundlagen der Ethik zu diskutieren. Dabei ging es um Wahrheit in der Moral, um Ontologie und Moral, um das Verhältnis von Metaethik und normativer Ethik, um die Natur praktischer Gründe und nicht …
eigene Leben verstehen
Zur Relevanz des Standpunkts der ersten Person für Theorien personaler Identität
Inbunden, 2013
1612 kr
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The aim of the series is to publish high-quality studies in English or German that deal with topics in practical philosophy from a broadly analytic perspective. These include questions in meta-ethics, normative ethics and ‘applied’ ethics, as well as in political philosophy, philosophy of law and …
Liberal Perfectionism
The Reasons that Goodness Gives
Inbunden, 2014
1962 kr
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Much of the recent literature on political perfectionism has focused on dealing with objections to this view. This book adopts a different approach: It attempts to highlight the intuitive appeal of liberal perfectionism by presenting a positive prima facie argument in its favour. The book starts by …
Concept of Justice and Equality
On the Dispute between John Rawls and Gerald Cohen
Av Eliane Saadé
Inbunden, 2015
1432 kr
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Unless considered on a practical level, where a precise distribution of social goods is chosen, John Rawls’s and Gerald Cohen’s approaches to social justice cannot be complementary. Their disagreement about justice and its principles calls for a choice, which opts either for the Rawlsian theory or …
metaethische Relativismus auf dem Prüfstand
Inbunden, 2016
1791 kr
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The aim of the series is to publish high-quality studies in English or German that deal with topics in practical philosophy from a broadly analytic perspective. These include questions in meta-ethics, normative ethics and ‘applied’ ethics, as well as in political philosophy, philosophy of law and …
Origin of Oughtness
A Case for Metaethical Conativism
Inbunden, 2018
1791 kr
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How come we ought to do things? Current metanormative debates often suffer from the fact that authors implicitly use adequacy conditions not shared by their opponents. This leads to an unsatisfying dialectical gridlock (Chang): One author accuses her opponents of not being able to account for stuff …
Pragmatic Approach to Agency in Group Activity
Inbunden, 2019
1432 kr
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A Pragmatic Approach to Agency in Group Activity builds towards an action theory that explains how new forms agency develop in group activity. The approach starts from practical insights about group activity and develops a new understanding of agency from there.This study shows how practical …
Emotion, Cognition, and the Virtue of Flexibility
Inbunden, 2023
1449 kr
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Should emotions play a role in our decisions, even if they are "just feelings" and not necessarily "imbued with reason" or cognitively penetrated? The author shows that such basic feelings as aversion and attraction can be important normative guides by disrupting engrained habits and beliefs, …
Concept of Moral Progress
Inbunden, 2022
1807 kr
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What is moral progress? Are we striving for moral progress when we seek to ‘make the world a better place’? What connects the different ways in which moral agents, their actions, and the world can become morally better? This book proposes an explication of the abstract concept of moral progress and …
Criminal Law Without Punishment
How Our Society Might Benefit From Abolishing Punitive Sanctions
Inbunden, 2023
1652 kr
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How can criminal punishment be morally justified? Zisman addresses this classical question in legal philosophy. He provides two maybe surprising answers to the question. First, as for a methodological claim, it argues that this question cannot be answered by philosophers and legal scholars alone. …
Concept of Moral Progress
Häftad, 2024
276 kr
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What is moral progress? Are we striving for moral progress when we seek to ‘make the world a better place’? What connects the different ways in which moral agents, their actions, and the world can become morally better? This book proposes an explication of the abstract concept of moral progress and …
Emotion, Cognition, and the Virtue of Flexibility
Häftad, 2025
232 kr
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Should emotions play a role in our decisions, even if they are "just feelings" and not necessarily "imbued with reason" or cognitively penetrated? The author shows that such basic feelings as aversion and attraction can be important normative guides by disrupting engrained habits and beliefs, …
Criminal Law Without Punishment
How Our Society Might Benefit From Abolishing Punitive Sanctions
Häftad, 2025
276 kr
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How can criminal punishment be morally justified? Zisman addresses this classical question in legal philosophy. He provides two maybe surprising answers to the question. First, as for a methodological claim, it argues that this question cannot be answered by philosophers and legal scholars alone. …
