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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... speak of piety , and he could reason about it ; he could not have lived the life he did without reasoning . We can be tripped because we walk , and Euthyphro could be tripped because he reasoned , and had to.2 Socrates ' path is ...
... 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 marks need a quick word here . Single quotes I try to use in the strict logician's way , to construct a name for ...
... speak of Ramsey's axioms loosely . The points I want to make are not about Ramsey's specific formulation , but about the general form of theories like those of Ramsey ( 1931 ) and Savage ( 1954 , 1972 ) . fronts you each with this ...
... speak of " subjective " and " objective " rationality ( 1979 , 72-73 ) ; my question is whether " objective rationality " is rationality at all . Brandt's " objective rationality " differs somewhat from what I am calling " advisability ...
... speak of inclusive fitness , which includes characteristics that promote the reproduction of close kin . The theory of kin selection was modeled by Hamilton ( 1964 ) ; for one of many accessible presentations , see Dawkins ( 1976 , chap ...
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 |