Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy

Name: Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780521587860

ISBN-10: 0521587867

ISBN-13: 9780521587860

Edition: 2000

Authors: David Lewis, Jonathan Dancy, John Haldane, Gilbert Harman, Frank Jackson

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This volume is devoted to Lewiss work in ethics and social philosophy. Topics covered include the logic of obligation and permission; decision theory and its relation to the idea that beliefs might play the motivating role of desires; a subjectivist analysis of value; dilemmas in virtue ethics; the problem of evil; problems about self-prediction; social coordination, linguistic and otherwise; alleged duties to rescue distant strangers; toleration as a tacit treaty; nuclear warfare; and punishment. This collection, and the two preceding volumes, will disseminate more widely the work of an eminent and influential contemporary philosopher.

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/13/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.726
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.



Introduction



Semantic analyses for dyadic deontic logic



A problem about permission



Reply to McMichael



Why ain'cha rich?



Desire as belief I



Desire as belief II



Dispositional theories of value



The Trap's dilemma



Evil for freedom's sake?



Do we believe in penal substitution?



Convention: reply to Jamieson



Meaning without use: reply to Hawthorne



Illusory innocence?



Mill and Milquetoast



Academic appointments: why ignore the advantage of being right?



Devil's bargains and the real world



Buy like a MADman, use like a NUT



The punishment that leaves something to chance



Scriven on human unpredictability with