Reasons and Recognition (eBook, PDF)

Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon
Redaktion: Wallace, R. Jay; Freeman, Samuel; Kumar, Rahul

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Produktbeschreibung

Reasons and Recognition brings together fourteen new papers on an array of topics from the many areas to which philosopher Thomas Scanlon has made path-breaking contributions, each of which develops a distinctive and independent position while critically engaging with central themes from Scanlon's own work in the area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199877034
• Artikelnr.: 38138206

Autorenporträt

R. Jay Wallace is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His interests extend to all parts of moral philosophy (including its history), and to such allied areas as political philosophy, philosophy of law, and philosophy of action. His publications include Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments, Normativity and the Will, and numerous papers on moral psychology, the theory of practical reason, and the philosophy of responsibility. Rahul Kumar is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University, Canada. He works in moral and political philosophy. He is the author of Consensualism in Principle and co-editor of Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries as well as several papers on contractualist moral theory.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Contributors
* I. Reason, Value, and Desire
* 1: Christine M. Korsgaard -The Activity of Reason
* 2: Samuel Scheffler - Valuing
* 3: Niko Kolodny- Aims as Reasons
* 4: Michael Smith - Scanlon on Desire and the Explanation of Action
* II. Ethical Themes: Contractualism, Promissory Obligation, and
Tolerance
* 5: Pamela Hieronymi- Of Metaethics and Motivation: The Appeal of
Contractualism
* 6: Rahul Kumar - Contractualism on the Shoal of Aggregation
* 7: Seana Valentine Shiffrin- Immoral, Conflicting, and Redundant
Promises
* 8: Angela M. Smith-The Trouble with Tolerance
* III. Political Themes: Conservatism, Justice, and Public Reason
* 9: G. A. Cohen - Rescuing Conservatism: A Defence of Existing Value
* 10: Charles R. Beitz - Global Political Justice and the "Democratic
Deficit"
* 11: Joshua Cohen - Establishment, Exclusion, and Democracy's Public
Reason
* 12: Aaron James - The Significance of Distribution
* IV. Responsibility
* 13: Gary Watson - The Trouble with Psychopaths
* 14: Susan Wolf - Blame, Italian Style
* 15: R. Jay Wallace - Dispassionate Opprobrium: On Blame and the
Reactive Sentiments