Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative JudgmentThis book examines some of the deepest questions in philosophy: What is involved in judging a belief, action, or feeling to be rational? What place does morality have in the kind of life it makes most sense to lead? How are we to understand claims to objectivity in moral judgments and in judgments of rationality? When we find ourselves in fundamental disagreement with whole communities, how can we understand our disagreement and cope with it? |
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... biological adaptation ; accepting norms figures in a peculiarly human system of motivation and control that depends on language . Norms make for human ways of living , and we can understand our normative life as part of the natural ...
... biology , and even studies of meaning they may try to divorce from the empir- ical . They limit their inquiries to what can be said a priori . Kant spoke of a metaphysics of morals and a metaphysics of nature , and wrote , " These prior ...
... biology either . Reflective equilibrium is an ideal state we might reach if we had considered everything fully and ... biological theories for that matter , would be relatively futile " ( 196 ) . " Biology may tell us about perceptual ...
... biology may do so , but that cannot be adequate biology . We are evolved animals , and so biological evolution must account for our potentialities . If a theory misses some of them , it is in that regard a defective biological theory ...
... Biological Pitfalls Even tractable evolutionary pictures need not show us as rigid and acultural . We evolved as culture emerged through our evolving . We evolved to have flexible genetic propensities — propensities to be affected ...
Contents
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Normative Psychology | 55 |
Normative Logic | 83 |
Natural Representation | 105 |
Moral Emotions | 126 |
First Steps | 153 |
Normative Authority | 171 |
MORAL INQUIRY | 250 |
References | 329 |
Index | 339 |