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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830679603321

Titolo

Essays on Derek Parfit's On what matters [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jussi Suikkanen and John Cottingham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

1-282-48338-2

9786612483387

1-4443-2288-5

1-4443-2289-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Ratio book series

Altri autori (Persone)

SuikkanenJussi

CottinghamJohn <1943->

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Ethics

Practical reason

Consequentialism (Ethics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published as volume 22, no. 1 of Ratio"--T.p. verso.

Papers from a conference arranged by the Philosophy Dept. at the University of Reading, November, 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Jussi Suikkanen (University of Leeds) -- 2. Naturalism without Tears: James Lenman (University of Sheffield) -- 3. Can There Be a Kantian Consequentialism?: Seiriol Morgan (Bristol University) -- 4. The Kantian Argument for Consequentialism: Michael Otsuka (UniversityCollege, London -- 5. Climb Every Mountain?: Michael Ridge (University of Edinburgh) -- 6. Might Kantian Contractualism be the Supreme Principle of Morality?: Gideon Rosen (Princeton University) -- 7. Desires, Values, Reasons, and the Dualism of Practical Reason: Michael Smith (Princeton University) -- 8. Should Kantians Be Consequentialists?: Jacob Ross (University of Southern California) -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Essays on Derek Parfit's On What Matters, seven leading moral philosophers offer critical evaluations of the central ideas presented in a greatly anticipated new work by world-renowned moral philosopher



Derek Parfit. Presents critical assessments of what promises to be one of the key moral philosophy texts of our timeFeatures essays by a team of leading philosophers including Princeton's Michael Smith, one of the world's leading meta-ethicists Addresses Parfit's central thesis - that the main ethical theories can agree on what matters - as well as his defense of mor