The Rational Foundations of Ethics
Title | The Rational Foundations of Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | T. L. S. Sprigge |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2020-07-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1000072886 |
Originally published in 1988, this landmark study develops its own positive account of the nature and foundations of moral judgement, while at the same time serving as a guide to the range of views on the matter which have been given in modern western philosophy. The book addresses itself to two main questions: Can moral judgements be true or false in that fundamental sense in which a true proposition is one which describes things as they really are? Are rational methods available in ethics which can be expected to produce convergence on shared moral views on the part of those who use them intelligently?
Ethics Done Right
Title | Ethics Done Right PDF eBook |
Author | Elijah Millgram |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2005-07-14 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521839433 |
Examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory.
Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics
Title | Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | David Owen Brink |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1989-02-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521359375 |
A systematic analysis considers the objectivity of ethics, the relationship between the moral point of view and a scientific or naturalist worldview and its role in a person's rational lifespan.
Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science
Title | Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science PDF eBook |
Author | Stefano Gattei |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2008-10-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134182953 |
Rectifying misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, Gattei reconstructs the logic of Popper’s development to show how one problem and its tentative solution led to a new problem.
Sentimental Rules
Title | Sentimental Rules PDF eBook |
Author | Shaun Nichols |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2004-11-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0195169344 |
Shaun Nichols' theory is that emotions play a critical role in both the psychological and the cultural underpinnings of basic moral judgement, in that the norms prohibiting the harming of others are fundamentally associated with our emotional responses to those harms.
Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy
Title | Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hanna |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2001-01-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191544043 |
Robert Hanna presents a fresh view of the Kantian and analytic traditions that have dominated continental European and Anglo-American philosophy over the last two centuries, and of the relation between them. The rise of analytic philosophy decisively marked the end of the hundred-year dominance of Kant's philosophy in Europe. But Hanna shows that the analytic tradition also emerged from Kant's philosophy in the sense that its members were able to define and legitimate their ideas only by means of an intensive, extended engagement with, and a partial or complete rejection of, the Critical Philosophy. Hanna's book therefore comprises both an interpretative study of Kant's massive and seminal Critique of Pure Reason, and a critical essay on the historical foundations of analytic philosophy from Frege to Quine. Hanna considers Kant's key doctrines in the Critique in the light of their reception and transmission by the leading figures of the analytic tradition—Frege, Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Quine. But this is not just a study in the history of philosophy, for out of this emerges Hanna's original approach to two much-contested theories that remain at the heart of contemporary philosophy. Hanna puts forward a new 'cognitive-semantic' interpretation of transcendental idealism, and a vigorous defence of Kant's theory of analytic and synthetic necessary truth. These will make Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy compelling reading not just for specialists in the history of philosophy, but for all who are interested in these fundamental philosophical issues.
Foundations for Moral Relativism
Title | Foundations for Moral Relativism PDF eBook |
Author | J. David Velleman |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2015-11-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1783740329 |
In this new edition of Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communities can indeed be subject to incompatible moralities, because their local mores are rationally binding. At the same time, he explains why the mores of different communities, even when incompatible, are still variations on the same moral themes. The book thus maps out a universe of many moral worlds without, as Velleman puts it, "moral black holes”. The six self-standing chapters discuss such diverse topics as online avatars and virtual worlds, lying in Russian and truth-telling in Quechua, the pleasure of solitude and the fear of absurdity. Accessibly written, this book presupposes no prior training in philosophy.