Jeremy Randel Koons

The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars

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Produktbeschreibung

Within Sellars's ethical theory lie answers to a number of pressing questions. In resolving questions, and combining Sellars's work with the latest work, this book presents a strikingly original and comprehensive theory that has much to contribute to contemporary debates in ethics and metaethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781138708747
• ISBN-10: 1138708747
• Artikelnr.: 55168303

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Randel Koons is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He has published widely in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, and other areas. His most recent book, The Normative and the Natural (co-authored with Michael P. Wolf) appeared in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Situating Sellars's Ethical Theory in the Contemporary
Landscape
Chapter 1: Sellars's Synoptic Vision
Chapter 2: A New Naturalism
Chapter 3: Moral Judgments as Shared Intentions
Chapter 4: What Are Sellarsian We-Intentions?
Chapter 5: Practical Reasoning and the Logic of Intentions
Chapter 6: Material Practical Inference
Chapter 7: Cooperative Rationality and We-Intentions
Chapter 8: Defeasible Rules and the Particularist Challenge
Chapter 9: Rules, Pattern-Governed Behavior, and Collective Attitudes
Chapter 10: Moral Motivation 1-Against the Humean Account
Chapter 11: Moral Motivation 2-Sellars's Kantian Account
Chapter 12: Against Moral Foundationalism
Chapter 13: Categorical Validity and the Necessity of Community
Chapter 14: Sellars's Mistaken Formalism
Chapter 15: Sellars's Ethical Naturalism