Luck, Value, and Commitment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luck, Value, and Commitment write by Ulrike Heuer. This book was released on 2012-06-28. Luck, Value, and Commitment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Luck, Value, and Commitment comprises eleven new essays which engage with, or take their point of departure from, the influential work in moral and political philosophy of Bernard Williams (1929-2003). Various themes of Williams's work are explored and taken in new directions. In their essays, Brad Hooker, Philip Pettit, and Susan Wolf are all concerned with Williams's work on the viability or wisdom of systematic moral theory, and his criticism, in particular, of moral theory's preoccupation with impartiality. David Enoch, Joseph Raz, and R. Jay Wallace address Williams's work on moral luck, and his insistence that moral appraisals bear a disquieting sensitivity to various kinds of luck. Wallace makes further connections between moral luck and the 'non-identity problem' in reproductive ethics. Michael Smith and Ulrike Heuer investigate Williams's defence of 'internalism' about reasons for action, which makes our reasons for action a function of our desires, projects, and psychological dispositions. Smith attempts to plug a gap in Williams's theory which is created by Williams's deference to imagination, while Heuer connects these issues to Williams's accommodation of 'thick' ethical concepts as a source of knowledge and action-guidingness. John Broome examines Williams's less-known work on the other central normative concept, 'ought'. Jonathan Dancy takes a look at Williams's work on moral epistemology and intuitionism, comparing and contrasting his work with that of John McDowell, and Gerald Lang explores Williams's work on equality, discrimination, and interspecies relations in order to reach the conclusion, similar to Williams's, that 'speciesism' is very unlike racism or sexism.
Luck, Value, and Commitment
Luck, Value, and Commitment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luck, Value, and Commitment write by Ulrike Heuer. This book was released on 2012-06-28. Luck, Value, and Commitment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a collection of essays that discuss various themes from the work of Bernard Williams.
Emotions, Values, and Agency
Emotions, Values, and Agency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emotions, Values, and Agency write by Christine Tappolet. This book was released on 2016-07-14. Emotions, Values, and Agency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The emotions we experience are crucial to who we are, to what we think, and to what we do. But what are emotions, exactly, and how do they relate to agency? The aim of this book is to spell out an account of emotions, which is grounded on analogies between emotions and sensory experiences, and to explore the implications of this account for our understanding of human agency. The central claim is that emotions consist in perceptual experiences of values, such as the fearsome, the disgusting or the admirable. A virtue of this account is that it affords a better grasp of a variety of interconnected phenomena, such as motivation, values, responsibility and reason-responsiveness. In the process of exploring the implications of the Perceptual Theory of emotions, several claims are proposed. First, emotions normally involve desires that set goals, but they can be contemplative in that they can occur without any motivation. Second, evaluative judgements can be understood in terms of appropriate emotions in so far as appropriateness is taken to consist in correct representation. Third, by contrast with what Strawsonian theories hold, the concept of moral responsibility is not response-dependent, but the relationship between emotions and moral responsibility is mediated by values. Finally, in so far as emotions are perceptions of values, they can be considered to be perceptions of practical reasons, so that on certain conditions, acting on the basis of one's emotions can consist in responding to one's reasons.
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 11
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 11 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 11 write by Mark Timmons. This book was released on 2022-02-03. Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 11 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing approaches to normative ethics (including moral realism, constructivism, and expressivism) to questions of how we should act and live well. OSNE is an essential resource for scholars and students working in moral philosophy.
Fichte's Ethical Thought
Fichte's Ethical Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fichte's Ethical Thought write by Allen W. Wood. This book was released on 2016-04-21. Fichte's Ethical Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Allen W. Wood presents the first book-length systematic exposition in English of Fichte's most important ethical work, the System of Ethics (1798). He places this work in the context of Fichte's life and career, of his philosophical system as conceived in the later Jena period, and in relation to his philosophy of right or justice and politics. Wood discusses Fichte's defense of freedom of the will, his grounding of the moral principle, theory of moral conscience, transcendental deduction of intersubjectivity, and his conception of free rational communication and the rational society. He develops and emphasizes the social and political radicalism of Fichte's moral and political philosophy, and brings out the philosophical interest of Fichte's positions and arguments for present day philosophy. Fichte's Ethical Thought defends the position that Fichte is a major thinker in the history of ethics, and the most important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy in the past two centuries.
