Conversations on Ethics

Name: Conversations on Ethics
Price: 6.75 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780199602940

ISBN-10: 0199602948

ISBN-13: 9780199602940

Edition: 2011

Authors: Alex Voorhoeve

List price: $19.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy used: $15.53

Marketplace

1 new & used from $6.75

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex Voorhoeve elicits answers to these questions from eleven outstanding philosophers and social scientists: Ken Binmore Philippa Foot Harry Frankfurt Allan Gibbard Daniel Kahneman Frances Kamm Alasdair MacIntyre T. M. Scanlon Peter Singer David Velleman Bernard Williams The exchanges are direct, open, and sharp, and give a clear account of these thinkers' core ideas about ethics. They also provide unique insights into their intellectual development - how they became interested in ethics, and how they…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 4/7/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.46" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.836



Introduction



Ethics and Intuitions



In Search of the Deep Structure of Morality




Each of Us Is Just One Among Others




Can We Trust Our Intuitions?




Virtue and Flourishing



The Grammar of Goodness




The Illusion of Self-Sufficiency




Ethics and Evolution



The Origin of Fairness




A Pragmatic Justification of Morality




Unity and Dissent



The Kingdom of Ends on the Cheap




A Mistrustful Animal




Love and Morality



The Necessity of Love




Really Seeing Another