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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... influenced by his account of the social workings of morality , and I follow him in looking to these workings as the key to moral theory and moral justification . Brandt was my teacher at Swarthmore when I was an undergraduate , and he ...
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... influence , and whatever he does , you save yourself a year in jail if you rat . This is the standard view of game theorists , yielded by systems like Ram- sey's : ratting " dominates " keeping mum.14 Others say it makes sense to keep ...
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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 |