David K. Lewis

Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy

Volume 3

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This third volume of Lewis's papers is devoted to his work in ethics and social philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521582490
• ISBN-10: 0521582490
• Artikelnr.: 22233372

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Semantic analyses for dyadic deontic logic
2. A problem about permission
3. Reply to McMichael
4. Why ain'cha rich?
5. Desire as belief I
6. Desire as belief II
7. Dispositional theories of value
8. The Trap's dilemma
9. Evil for freedom's sake?
10. Do we believe in penal substitution?
11. Convention: reply to Jamieson
12. Meaning without use: reply to Hawthorne
13. Illusory innocence?
14. Mill and Milquetoast
15. Academic appointments: why ignore the advantage of being right?
16. Devil's bargains and the real world
17. Buy like a MADman, use like a NUT
18. The punishment that leaves something to chance
19. Scriven on human unpredictability (with Jane S. Richardson).