Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment

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Clarendon Press, 1992 - Philosophy - 346 pages
This treatise explores what is at issue in narrowly moral questions, and in questions of rational thought and conduct in general. It helps to explain why normative thought and talk so pervade human life, and why our highly social species might have evolved to be gripped by these questions. The author asks how, if his theory is right, we can interpret our normative puzzles, and thus proceed toward finding answers to them.

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Contents

The Puzzle
3
Nature and Judgment
23
Analyses Broached
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
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