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Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Michael Smith
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Series | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:402 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 161 |
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Category/Genre | Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism Ethics and moral philosophy |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521007733
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Classifications | Dewey:170 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
6 September 2004 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Over the last fifteen years, Michael Smith has written a series of seminal essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents. This long awaited collection comprises some of the most influential of Smith's essays. Among the topics covered are: the Humean theory of motivating reasons, the nature of normative reasons, Williams and Korsgaard on internal and external reasons, the nature of self-control, weakness of will, compulsion, freedom, responsibility, the analysis of our rational capacities, moral realism, the dispositional theory of value, the supervenience of the normative on the non-normative, the error theory, rationalist treatments of moral judgment, the practicality requirement on moral judgment and non-cognivist. This collection will be of interest to students in philosophy and psychology.
Author Biography
Michael Smith is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University.
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