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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... various of these devices promised to help with the grand set of problems I was addressing . Throughout the book , I cling to the shoulders of giants : I apply various of their philosophic inven- tions , and at times I work to improve ...
... various realms . The point of the book is to ask what this involves . We can picture human normative life as a part of nature , but that might leave us at a loss as to how to engage in that normative life . My first step toward engage ...
... various " naturalistic " definitions of ' good'.9 Take first the Humean component : that instrumental rationality is all of rationality , that one's intrinsic ends , wanting the things one wants for their own sake apart from what they ...
... various things , or so we think , but if we try to brush that fact into a picture of nature , we risk a botched likeness ; bald descriptions do not straight off yield reasons . The normative things we say have meaning , but how can we ...
... various hunting - gathering environments . That tells us nothing directly about what we are like in fact , in our own environments . The hope for explanation must lie in tractably simple patterns . A characteristic that enhances ...
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 |