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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... kind permission to reuse this material . While writing the book I received an immense amount of philo- sophical help from many people ; their comments , suggestions , and arguments have importantly affected the book in many places ...
... kind of life it is rational to live . I offer no special answer to this question ; my first worry is what the question is . What does it mean to call an alternative rational , or another irrational ? That is the puzzle of the book , and ...
... kind of direct and flavorless endorsement , taken from the point of view of the person whose acts or feelings are being assessed . The rational act is what it makes sense to do , the right choice on the occasion . A rational feeling is ...
... kind that Moore put forth in his attacks on various " naturalistic " definitions of ' good'.9 Take first the Humean component : that instrumental rationality is all of rationality , that one's intrinsic ends , wanting the things one ...
... kind of formal coherence . His axioms require more than sheer logical consistency in belief . They require that one's preferences form an ordering . They require as well a " sure thing principle " that goes like this : Let A , B , and C ...
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 |