Normativity and the will : selected papers on moral psychology and practical reason / R. Jay Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, R. Jay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Normativity (Ethics).

Will.

Practical reason.

Physical Description:

347 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working in these areas. The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and psychological issues in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Themes that are addressed include reason, desire, and the will; responsibility, identification, and emotion; and the relation between morality and other normative domains. Wallace's treatments of these topics are at once sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason, and they articulate and defend a unified framework for thinking about those issues. The volume also features a helpful new introduction.

Contents:

How to argue about practical reason

Three conceptions of rational agency

Explanation, deliberation, and reasons

Normativity and the will

Normativity, commitment, and instrumental reason

Reason and responsibility

Moral responsibility and the practical point of view

Addiction as defect of the will : some philosophical reflections

Caring, reflexivity, and the structure of volition

Ressentiment, value, and self-vindication : making sense of Nietzsche's slave revolt

Virtue, reason, and principle

Scanlon's contractualism

The rightness of acts and the goodness of lives

Moral reasons and moral fetishes : rationalists and anti-rationalists on moral motivation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

019928749X

0199287481

OCLC:

62330737

Publisher Number:

9780199287499

9780199287482