David Lewis

Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy

Volume 3
Herausgeber: Sosa, Ernest; Dancy, Jonathan

• Broschiertes 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: 26. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780521587860
• ISBN-10: 0521587867
• Artikelnr.: 21305110

Autorenporträt

David Lewis is co-presenter of the New Politics Australia podcast, historian, musicologist, musician and political scientist based in Sydney. His lecturing and research interests include roots music, popular music, Australian, UK and US politics and crime fiction. He has published in Music Forum Australia, Eureka Street, Quadrant, Crikey and has edited several books.

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).