Facts, Values, and Norms Essays Toward a Morality of Consequence

Name: Facts, Values, and Norms Essays Toward a Morality of Consequence
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ISBN: 9780521426930

ISBN-10: 0521426936

ISBN-13: 9780521426930

Edition: 2003

Authors: Peter Albert Railton, Jonathan Dancy, John Haldane, Gilbert Harman, Frank Jackson

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In the essays included in this collection, Peter Railton shows how a fairly sober, naturalistically informed view of the world might nonetheless incorporate objective values and moral knowledge. The text will be of interest to professionals and students working in philosophy and ethics.

Book details

List price: $57.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 410
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.13" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Gilbert Harman is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and the author of Explaining Value and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy and Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind.




Realism about Value and Morality



Moral realism



Facts and values



Noncognitivism about rationality



Aesthetic value, moral value, and the ambitions of naturalism



Red, bitter, good



Normative Moral Theory



Alienation, consequentialism, and the demands of morality



Locke, stock, and peril



How thinking about character and utilitarianism might lead to rethinking the character of utilitarianism



Pluralism, dilemma, and the expression of moral conflict



The Authority of Ethics and Values - The Problem of Normativity



On the hypothetical and non-hypothetical in reasoning about thought and action



Normative force and normative freedom



Morality, ideology, and reflection or, the duck sits yet