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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... explain thoughts of morality , of what is worth having , of whether a claim merits credence , of what is shameful and what is cause for pride — and indeed all the other kinds of thought that philosophers call normative . Rationality was ...
A Theory of Normative Judgment Allan Gibbard. explain the term by saying what state of mind it expresses. In this ... explains why we need normative language, and as it takes shape, it ascribes to rationality many of the features on which ...
... explain the term by saying what state of mind it expresses . In this sense the analysis is expressivistic , and in ... explains why we need normative language , and as it takes shape , it ascribes to rationality many of the features on ...
... explain the appearance of intelligibility . In short , then , the Humean thesis fares poorly as a claim about meaning . People think some things worth wanting whatever in fact one wants , and other things not worth wanting even if in ...
... explanation of mathematical or phys- ical theories , or biological theories for that matter , would be relatively futile " ( 196 ) . " Biology may tell us about perceptual and motivational starting points , but in its present state it ...
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 |