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Zusatztext Weighing Reasons is a refreshing collection ... All too often volumes of this type contain very little new work and so are sometimes a little bit stale. They tend to be on already much-debated topics and their famous contributors rarely venture outside their well-known views. This anthology, in contrast, is on a relatively unexplored topic, and its editors and many of its authors belong to a stellar younger generation of philosophers. Informationen zum Autor Errol Lord is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on ethical theory, epistemology, philosophy of action, and aesthetics. He has published papers in these areas in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophical Studies, The Philosophical Quarterly, and Australasian Journal of Philosophy, among other places.Barry Maguire is a Research Assistant Professor in Philosophy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Core Faculty Member in the joint UNC/Duke program in Politics, Philosophy, & Economics. He was previously a Bersoff Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in Philosophy at New York University. He works in ethical theory, epistemology, political philosophy, and metaphysics. Klappentext Normative reasons have become a popular theoretical tool in recent decades. One helpful feature of normative reasons is their weight. The fourteen new essays in this book theorize about many different aspects of weight. Topics range from foundational issues to applications of weight in debates across philosophy. Zusammenfassung Normative reasons have become a popular theoretical tool in recent decades. One helpful feature of normative reasons is their weight. The fourteen new essays in this book theorize about many different aspects of weight. Topics range from foundational issues to applications of weight in debates across philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Introduction 1. An Opinionated Guide to the Weight of Reasons Errol Lord and Barry Maguire Section One: Machinery in the Theory of Weight 2. Conditions, Modifiers, and Holism Ralf Bader 3. How do reasons accrue? Shyam Nair 4. Reasons, Reason, and Context Daniel Fogal 5. Commitment: Worth the Weight Alida Liberman and Mark Schroeder Section Two: Analytic Issues in the Theory of Weight 6. Democratizing Humeanism Kate Manne 7. Value and the Weight of Practical Reasons Joseph Raz 8. The Distinction between Justifying and Requiring: Nothing to Fear Joshua Gert 9. Bearing the Weight of Reasons Stephen Kearns Section Three: Applications of the Theory of Weight 10. Reasoning with Precedents as Constrained Natural Reasoning John F. Horty 11. Comparativism: The Grounds of Rational Choice Ruth Chang 12. The Modesty of the Moral Point of View Karl Schafer 13. Making the "Hard " Problem of Moral Normativity Easier Stephen Darwall 14. The Implementation Problem for Deontology Michael Smith and Frank Jackson Index ...
