Ethics and the a Priori - Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics

Informationen zum Autor Michael Smith is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University. Klappentext This long awaited collection comprises some of the most influential of Smith's essays. Zusammenfassung Michael Smith has written a series of 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Moral Psychology: 1. Internal reasons; 2. The incoherence argument: reply to Schafer-Landau; 3. Philosophy and commonsense: the case of weakness of will; 4. Frog and toad lose control; 5. A theory of freedom and responsibility; 6. Rational capacities; 7(i) On Humeans, anti-humeans and motivation: a reply to Pettit; 7(ii) Humeanism, psychologism, and the normative story; 8. The possibility of philosophy of action; Part II. Meta-Ethics: 9. Moral realism; 10. Objectivity and moral realism: on the significance of the phenomenology of moral experience; 11. In defence of The Moral Problem: a reply to Brink, Copp and Sayre-McCord; 12. Exploring the implications of the dispositional theory of value; 13. Does the evaluative supervene on the natural?; 14. Internalism's wheel; 15. Evaluation, uncertainty, and motivation; 16. Ethics and the a priori: a modern parable.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Smith
• Assisted by: Jonathan Dancy (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.09.2004
• EAN: 9780521007733
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00773-3
• No. of pages: 402
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism