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WISE CHOICES, APT FEELINGS
A THEORY OF NORMATIVE JUDGMENT |
| By: |
Allan Gibbard |
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Paperback |
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£46.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198249845 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198249849 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
12 November, 1992 |
| Pages: |
358 |
| Description: |
In Wise Choices, Apt Feelings, Alan Gibbard explores a central question in ethics: what content our moral judgements carry in relation to the `norms' of society which have shaped our views and opinions. Gibbard develops a philosophically sophisticated answer to this, taking ideas from a wide background, - modern psychology, game theory, and evolutionary biology, - and applying them to ethics for the first time. |
| Synopsis: |
'Choices can be wise or foolish, and feelings can be apt or off the mark.' Since this is how we judge, it would be good to know what content these normative judgements carry. Gibbard offers an answer, and elaborates it. His theory explores what is at issue in narrowly moral questions, and in questions of rational thought and conduct in general. It helps to explain why normative thought and talk so pervade human life, and why our highly social species might have evolved to be gripped by these questions. Gibbard asks how, if his theory is right, we can interpret our normative puzzles, and thus proceed toward finding answers to them. Not available from OUP in the USA, Canada, Japan or the Phillippines. |
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UK |
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Clarendon Press |
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