R. Jay Wallace

Normativity and the Will

Selected Papers on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Part III," Morality and Other Normative Domains", addresses the structure of moral reasons and moral motivation, and the relations between moral demands and other normative domains (including especially the requirements of living a meaningful human life). Wallace's treatments of these topics are at once sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason. The book articulates and defends a unified framework for thinking about those issues, while offering sustained critical discussions of other influential approaches (by philosophers such as Korsgaard, McDowell, Nietzsche, Raz, Scanlon, and Williams). It should be of interest to every serious student of moral philosophy.

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Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working in these areas. The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and psychological issues in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Themes that are addressed include reason, desire, and the will; responsibility, identification, and emotion; and the relation between morality and other normative domains. Wallace's treatments of these topics are at once sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason, and they articulate and defend a unified framework for thinking about those issues. The volume also features a helpful new introduction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9780199287499
• ISBN-10: 019928749X
• Artikelnr.: 21510581

Autorenporträt

R. Jay Wallace, University of California, Berkeley

Inhaltsangabe

* I. Reason, Desire, and the Will
* 1: How to Argue about Practical Reason
* 2: Three Conceptions of Rational Agency
* 3: Explanation, Deliberation, and Reasons
* 4: Normativity and the Will
* 5: Normativity, Commitment, and Instrumental Reason
* II. Responsibility, Identification, and Emotion
* 6: Reason and Responsibility
* 7: Moral Responsibility and the Practical Point of View
* 8: Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some Philosophical Reflections
* 9: Caring, Reflexivity, and the Structure of Volition
* 10: Ressentiment, Value, and Self-Vindication: Making Sense of
Nietzsche's Slave Revolt
* III. Morality and Other Normative Domains
* 11: Virtue, Reason, and Principle
* 12: Scanlon's Contractualism
* 13: The Rightness of Acts and the Goodness of Lives
* 14: Moral Reasons and Moral Fetishes: Rationalists and
Anti-Rationalists on Moral Motivation