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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... expect the other to keep 13. The prisoner's dilemma is attributed to A. W. Tucker ; see Luce and Raiffa ( 1957 , 95-97 ) . Nozick ( 1969 ) introduces twins , and points out that doing so makes the problem into an analog of Newcomb's ...
... expect humans to be like on the basis of Darwinian considerations . The best Darwinian pic- ture must be familiar in many ways after all , we know a lot about our species apart from evolutionary thinking . There may be patterns , though ...
... expect them . Likewise , if I know that my evolutionary telos is to reproduce my genes , that in itself gives me no reason for wanting many descendants , nephews , and nieces , or for caring specially for my kin because they share my ...
... expect analyses to do serious philosophical work is to succumb to a myth of meaning . The myth may take the form of accepting a sharp analytic - synthetic distinction — a divide between truth in virtue of logic and meaning alone , and ...
... expect some analyses to work better than others . There may be an analysis that is clearly best for certain purposes , and there may not . Even if not , trying out top can- didates is bound to reveal something about the term.7 Any ...
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 |