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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... interpreting moral questions as spe- cial questions of rationality , somehow connected with moral emotions . I am influenced by his account of the social workings of morality , and I follow him in looking to these workings as the key to ...
... interpret instrumental rationality as a kind of formal coherence among preferences and actions . The conditions of coherence are such things as that one's pref- erences form an ordering , and that one always does what one most prefers ...
... interpret what they could mean . Any difficult analysis will be controversial , and so the point is not just that there are controversies . An analysis can be questionable and still be right . To refute an analysis by counterexample ...
... interpretation of dominance in systems like Ramsey's ( see Levi 1975 ) , but I take the interpretation favored by Nozick ( 1969 ) and Gibbard and Harper ( 1978 ) . 15. This argument would be recognized as sound in the decision theory ...
... interpretations of the com- mandments are clear and agreed upon . Then there might be no fact of the matter whether ' wrong ' means " violates the Ten Commandments " or something expressive . This quiescent community , though , would ...
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 |