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: Pond
Author: Claire-Louise BennettPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 039957591X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review "Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experience—from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cows—rendered sometimes in story-length, story-like stretches of narrative, sometimes in fragments no longer than a page, but always suffused with the hypersaturated, almost synesthetic intensity of the physical world that we remember from childhood. The effect is of character refracted and ventriloquized by environment, catching as it bounces her longings, frustrations, and disappointments—the ending of an affair, or the ambivalent beginning with a new lover. As the narrator’s persona emerges in all its eccentricity, sometimes painfully and often hilariously, we cannot help but see mirrored there our own fraught desires and limitations, and our own fugitive desire, despite everything, to be known. Shimmering and unusual, Pond demands to be devoured in a single sitting that will linger long after the last page.