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Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Michael Smith
SeriesCambridge Studies in Philosophy
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:402
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 161
Category/GenreAnalytical philosophy and Logical Positivism
Ethics and moral philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9780521007733
ClassificationsDewey:170
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 6 September 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.