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This study details the concepts of morality, prudence, justice, welfare and legality, as well as the logical foundations, epistemology and metaphysics of practical thinking.
List of contents
Preface; Introduction: the place and plan of the enquiry; Part I. On the Formal Structure of Practical Thinking: 1. The logical foundations of practical thinking; 2. On the formal structure of ontological and deontological constraints; 3. On the formal structure of probabilistic thinking; 4. On the formal structure of thinking about practical preferences; Part II. Aspects and Kinds of Practical Evaluation: 5. On chosen interventions in the course of nature; 6. Agents and their actions; 7. Practical attitudes: their objects and levels; 8. On some common characterizations of actions and agents; 9. Principles of practical evaluation; 10. On the relation between evaluative and regulative standards of conduct; 11. Morality; 12. Justice; 13. Prudence and welfare; 14. Morality, prudence and legality; 15. On pragmatic and practical idealizations; Part III. On the Epistemology and Metaphysics of Practical Thinking: 16. On the relation between cognitive and practical rationality; 17. On argument and evidence in morals; 18. On understanding other moralities and the limits of moral pluralism; 19. On the analysis of moral systems as a topic for speculation and a source of moral guidance; References; Index.
Summary
Professor Körner's comprehensive study of practical thinking shows the complex relations which a person's practical attitudes bear to each other, and in particular how their moral or prudential character depends not only on their content and form but also on their place in the system constituted by them.
