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? |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 41
... standard view of game theorists , yielded by systems like Ram- sey's : ratting " dominates " keeping mum.14 Others say it makes sense to keep mum . That indicates twin is keep- ing mum , and twin's keeping mum will save you nine years ...
... Standard decision theory says to answer more . Indeed it tells you to pay as much to reduce the bullets from four to three as you would pay to reduce the bullets from two to none . The second scene , after all , is as if you were forced ...
... to be — but I don't have full information . The rational thing for me to do , then , is to pur- sue one of the standard strategies for getting out of trackless woods : walk carefully in a straight line by sighting along trees 18. Analyses.
... standards of justification and criticism , the attempt to understand it from outside by means of biology will be much less valuable . " ( Much less , that is , than if ethics is " just a certain type of behavioral pattern or habit ...
... standard is confident , and their interpretations of the com- mandments are clear and agreed upon . Then there might be no fact of the matter whether ' wrong ' means " violates the Ten Commandments " or something expressive . This ...
Contents
3 | |
23 | |
36 | |
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 |