Shaping the Normative Landscape

Shaping the Normative Landscape is an investigation of the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request. David Owens shows that these are all instruments by which we exercise control over our normative environment.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part One: Interests


• 1: Blame and Guilt


• 2: Wronging


• 3: Obligation


• 4: Obligation and Involvement


• Part Two: Powers


• 5: The Problem with Promising


• 6: The Promissory Interest


• 7: The Possibility of Consent


• Part Three: Practices


• 8: What is a Promise?


• 9: The Promissory Bond


• 10: Which Promises Bind?


• References


• Index

About the author

David Owens is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of two previous books: Causes and Coincidences (Cambridge 1992) and Reason Without Freedom (Routledge 2000). He has held visiting appointments at Yale University, Oxford University, Sydney University, London University, and at the Catholic University of Lublin.

Summary

Shaping the Normative Landscape is an investigation of the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request. David Owens shows that these are all instruments by which we exercise control over our normative environment.

Additional text

ambitious, instructive and sophisticated

Product details

• Authors: David Owens, David (University of Reading) Owens
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2014
• EAN: 9780198708049
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870804-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law