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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... share of attention , " then he would be willing to perform that act ( 11 ) . An act , then , is fully rational if and only if it is instru- mentally rational as a means to the fulfillment of the intrinsic desires it would be rational ...
... share my genes — nor , of course , a reason to the contrary . Any link between evolutionary con- siderations and what it makes sense to want will be subtle and indirect . Evolutionary thought about humanity has been controversial . 6 ...
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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 |