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Titolo: | Essays on Derek Parfit's On what matters [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jussi Suikkanen and John Cottingham |
Pubblicazione: | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
Disciplina: | 170 |
Soggetto topico: | Ethics |
Practical reason | |
Consequentialism (Ethics) | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | SuikkanenJussi CottinghamJohn <1943-> |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Essays on Derek Parfit's On what matters |
ISBN: | 1-282-48338-2 |
9786612483387 | |
1-4443-2288-5 | |
1-4443-2289-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910139497103321 |
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