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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... mind . Rawls more than any other teacher I can think of treated his students as partners in philosophy . He listened carefully and responded creatively , perhaps even over- acknowledging our contributions . This was a heady role for ...
... mind it expresses. In this sense the analysis is expressivistic, and in too big a mouthful, I shall call it the normexpressivistic analysis. 6 The analysis is non-cognitivistic in the narrow sense that, according to it, to call a thing ...
... mind is familiar . It is the one we use when we talk about " what it makes sense " to do or to believe , or when we speak of " the wise choice " in a situation . It is the one we use when we ask what we 4. My single and double quotation ...
... mind , and a good way to identify this state of mind might be to exhibit its place in a rough psychological theory . The capacity to accept norms I portray as a human biological adaptation ; accepting norms figures in a peculiarly human ...
... mind it expresses . In this sense the analysis is expressivistic , and in too big a mouthful , I shall call it the norm- expressivistic analysis.6 The analysis is non - cognitivistic in the narrow sense that , according to it , to call ...
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 |