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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... talk with fresh people; they put up with my neglect and philosophical preoccupation. Mary has been my greatest support, Stephen my most avid interlocutor, and George my sternest critic. Contents I · ANALYSES 1. The Puzzle 2. Nature and.
... they put up with my neglect and philosophical preoccupation . Mary has been my greatest support , Stephen my most avid interlocutor , and George my sternest critic . Contents I ANALYSES 1. The Puzzle 3 2. Nature and x • Preface.
... Nature and Judgment 23 3. Analyses Broached 36 4. Normative Psychology 55 5. Normative Logic 83 · II PSYCHE IN NATURE 6. Natural Representation 105 7. Moral Emotions 126 III · NORMATIVE OBJECTIVITY 8. Objectivity : First Steps 153 9 ...
... nature of rationality. It is meant, rather, to capture the common element in dispute when people disagree about the nature of rationality. To address substantive questions, we should know what the questions are. The analysis has worth ...
... nature , and whoever thinks and talks can be led , unless he is careful , into wider questions . That may not be what makes everyone's life worth living , but it grows out of parts of our being we could not be without . The ! Kung are ...
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 |