Author: Edwin HodderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Suggestive Lives and Thoughts
Author: Edwin HodderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Thinking How to Live
Author: Allan GIBBARDPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674037588
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Philosophers have long suspected that thought and discourse about what we ought to do differ in some fundamental way from statements about what is. But the difference has proved elusive, in part because the two kinds of statement look alike. Focusing on judgments that express decisions--judgments about what is to be done, all things considered--Allan Gibbard offers a compelling argument for reconsidering, and reconfiguring, the distinctions between normative and descriptive discourse--between questions of "ought" and "is." Gibbard considers how our actions, and our realities, emerge from the thousands of questions and decisions we form for ourselves. The result is a book that investigates the very nature of the questions we ask ourselves when we ask how we should live, and that clarifies the concept of "ought" by understanding the patterns of normative concepts involved in beliefs and decisions. An original and elegant work of metaethics, this book brings a new clarity and rigor to the discussion of these tangled issues, and will significantly alter the long-standing debate over "objectivity" and "factuality" in ethics. Table of Contents: I. Preliminaries 1. Introduction: A Possibility Proof 2. Intuitionism as Template: Emending Moore II. The Thing to Do 3. Planning and Ruling Out: The "Frege-Geach" Problem 4. Judgment, Disagreement, Negation 5. Supervenience and Constitution 6. Character and Import III. Normative Concepts 7. Ordinary Oughts: Meaning and Motivation 8. Normative Kinds: Patterns of Engagement 9. What to Say about the Thing to Do: The Expressivistic Turn and What it Gains Us IV. Knowing What to Do 10. Explaining with Plans 11. Knowing What to Do 12. Ideal Response Concepts 13. Deep Vindication and Practical Confidence 14. Impasse and Dissent References Index This is a remarkable book. It takes up a central and much-discussed problem - the difference between normative thought (and discourse) and "descriptive" thought (and discourse). It develops a compelling response to that problem with ramifications for much else in philosophy. But perhaps most importantly, it brings new clarity and rigor to the discussion of these tangled issues. It will take some time to come to terms with the details of Gibbard's discussion. It is absolutely clear, however, that the book will reconfigure the debate over objectivity and "factuality" in ethics. --Gideon Rosen, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University Gibbard,/author> writes elegantly, and the theory he develops is innovative, philosophically sophisticated, and challenging. Gibbard defends his theory vigorously and with admirable intellectual honesty. --David Copp, Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University
Thoughts Suggested and Arrested
Author: ThoughtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thought and thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Exclusive of Prose Fiction in the Central Lending Library
Author: Leeds (England). Public Libraries, Art Gallery and MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Robertson's Living Thoughts. A Thesaurus
Author: Frederick William RobertsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385452031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Academy
Author: Caxtoniana: a Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron LyttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Homiletic Review
Author: The Graver Thoughts of a Country Parson. By the Author of “The Recreations of a Country Parson”. [Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson Boyd.] Fifteenth Thousand
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Author: Life, Body, Person and Self
Author: Stephan GrätzelPublisher: Verlag Herder GmbH
ISBN: 349581812X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Das Ziel des Sammelbandes ist es, in der aktuellen bioethischen Debatte neue Impulse zu setzen, da sie augenscheinlich mit ihrem Personenbegriff noch keine zufriedenstellenden Ergebnisse erreicht hat. Die, auf den ersten Blick, nonpersonale buddhistische Ethik mit ihrem annatā-Konzept könnte auf die drängenden bioethischen Fragen und Probleme neue Antworten finden. Sie steht deshalb im Zentrum dieses Bandes. Andere Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit den Themen Leben, Körper/Leib, Person und Selbst und stellen indische, afrikanische und westliche Standpunkte vor. So kann aufgezeigt werden, wie reich die Debatte an kulturell wie theoretisch unterschiedlichen Perspektiven ist. Schließlich werden noch die Feldforschungs-Ergebnisse aus Sri Lanka, Ladakh und Dharmasala des durch die DFG finanzierten Projekts präsentiert, womit erst die ambitionierte Aufgabe des Bandes erfüllt werden konnte, die festgefahrene Diskussion in der Bioethik mit alternativen Blickwinkeln wiederzubeleben. Mit Beiträgen von Stephan Grätzel, Paul Nnodim, Patricia Rehm-Grätzel, Dirk Solies, Tobias Schlicht, Michael von Brück, Jens Schlieter, Eberhard Guhe, Mark Siderits, Alfred Weil, Jonardon Ganeri, Volker Caysa, Matthias Koßler und Stephan Schaede.