Very Bad Wizard Morality Behind the Curtain

Name: Very Bad Wizard Morality Behind the Curtain
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ISBN: 9781934781388

ISBN-10: 193478138X

ISBN-13: 9781934781388

Edition: 2009

Authors: Tamler Sommers

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Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing
Publication date: 11/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Tamler Sommers is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. He is the author of "A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain", a collection of interviews with philosophers and scientists. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and is a frequent contributor to the "Times Literary Supplement" and the "Believer".



Introduction: Questions for the interviewer



How free are we?


You cannot make yourself the way you are.



The power of the situation.




Where did morality come from? What is it? Wliere is it going?


Lessons from our primate relatives.



The illusion of objectivity in ethics.



Relative justice



Trolley problems




Bad wizard, good man: Dispelling the illusions of morality


Comfortably dumbfounded



"I walk the line."



Codes of honor



Selected Reading