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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... Inquiry and Its Evolution , " in Peter Koller , Alfred Schramm , and Ota Weinberger , eds . , Philosophy of Law , Politics , and Society : Proceedings of the 12th International Wittgenstein - Symposium ( Vienna : Verlag Holder - Preface • ...
... 11. Rationale and Warrant 204 12. Pragmatic Support 219 13. Communities of Judgment 233 · IV MORAL INQUIRY 14. Moral Concern 253 15. Assessing Feelings 274 16. Structural Questions 293 17. Moral System 310 References Index 329 339.
... inquiry and discussion. The analysis is non-substantive, in that one could accept it and yet have no idea how to go about inquiring into what sorts of things are rational. In some ways that is a virtue, for the analysis is not itself ...
... inquiry and discussion . 6. Ayer ( 1936 , chap . 6 ) and Hare ( 1981 ) are both expressivists in this sense . Ayer thinks that moral utterances express feelings or moral sentiments . Hare thinks they express preferences of a special ...
... inquire , when those ways are rea- sonable . It should help us sort ways of inquiry that make sense from ways that do not . My hope is that if we proceed with a clear , plausible view of what we are doing , then we can progress — not ...
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 |