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Thinking how to live / Allan Gibbard.
LIBRA BJ1500.E94 G53 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibbard, Allan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Expressivism (Ethics).
- Normativity (Ethics).
- Physical Description:
- xv, 302 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Gibbard considers how our actions, and our realities, emerge from the thousands of questions and decisions we form for ourselves. The result is a book that investigates the very nature of the questions we ask ourselves when we ask how we should live, and that clarifies the concept of "ought" by understanding the patterns of normative concepts involved in beliefs and decisions. An original and elegant work of metaethics, this book brings a new clarity and rigor to the discussion of these tangled issues, and will significantly alter the long-standing debate over "objectivity" and "factuality" in ethics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674011678
- OCLC:
- 52058237
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