Rationality and the Good: Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert AudiMark Timmons, John Greco, Alfred R. Mele For over thirty years, Robert Audi has produced important work in ethics, epistemology, and the theory of action. This volume features thirteen new critical essays on Audi by a distinguished group of authors: Fred Adams, William Alston, Laurence BonJour, Roger Crisp, Elizabeth Fricker, Bernard Gert, Thomas Hurka, Hugh McCann, Al Mele, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Raimo Tuomela, Candace Vogler, and Timothy Williamson. Audi's introductory essay provides a thematic overview interconnecting his views in ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of action. The volume concludes with his comprehensive response essay that yields an illuminating dialog with all his critics and often extends his previous work. |
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... true. Moreover, foundations can be rebuilt from superstructure as well as shifted from the fulcrum of their fellows. Deduction of untoward consequences from foundational elements is a common route to rebuilding them. The same holds for ...
... true. Moreover, foundations can be rebuilt from superstructure as well as shifted from the fulcrum of their fellows. Deduction of untoward consequences from foundational elements is a common route to rebuilding them. The same holds for ...
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... between theoretical and practical reason leave room for important differences . The broadest is perhaps this : belief is , in a certain objective way, successful when its object is true; desire—in the basic 6 Rationality and the Good.
... between theoretical and practical reason leave room for important differences . The broadest is perhaps this : belief is , in a certain objective way, successful when its object is true; desire—in the basic 6 Rationality and the Good.
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... true; desire—in the basic cases—is, in a similar objective way, successful when its object is good.12 What is objective may, of course, be internal: there are truths about matters internal to the mind, and there are objec- tive goods ...
... true; desire—in the basic cases—is, in a similar objective way, successful when its object is good.12 What is objective may, of course, be internal: there are truths about matters internal to the mind, and there are objec- tive goods ...
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... true that the more good we bring about, the better? These points make it natural to believe—as consequentialists in ethics do— that the right is subordinate to the good. If, as I think, the good is organic, this projected subordination ...
... true that the more good we bring about, the better? These points make it natural to believe—as consequentialists in ethics do— that the right is subordinate to the good. If, as I think, the good is organic, this projected subordination ...
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... true . If there are ( as I think ) objectively ascertainable — indeed , a priori ascer- tainable reasons for action , and if these have high normative authority , then moral conduct well grounded in them is never irrational . Still ...
... true . If there are ( as I think ) objectively ascertainable — indeed , a priori ascer- tainable reasons for action , and if these have high normative authority , then moral conduct well grounded in them is never irrational . Still ...
Contents
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Knowledge Justification and Acceptance | 83 |
Intention SelfDeception and Reasons for Action | 141 |
Reason and Intuition in Thought and Action | 199 |
Index | 263 |
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