Experience and conduct : a philosophical enquiry into practical thinking / edited by Gordon G. Globus, Grover Maxwell and Irwin Savodnik ; contributors, E. M. Dewan ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Körner, Stephan, 1913-2000.

Contributor:

Dewan, Edmond M., 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reasoning.

Experience.

Practice (Philosophy).

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

ix, 268 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Contents:

Part I On the Formal Structure of Practical Thinking

1 The logical foundations of practical thinking

2 On the formal structure of ontological and deontological constraints

3 On the formal structure of probabilistic thinking

4 On the formal structure of thinking about practical preferences

Part II Aspects and Kinds of Practical Evaluation

5 On chosen interventions in the course of nature

6 Agents and their actions

7 Practical attitudes: their objects and levels

8 On some common characterizations of actions and agents

9 Principles of practical evaluation

10 On the relation between evaluative and regulative standards of conduct

11 Morality

12 Justice

13 Prudence and welfare

14 Morality, prudence and legality

15 On pragmatic and practical idealizations

Part III On the Epistemology and Metaphysics of Practical Thinking

16 On the relation between cognitive and practical rationality

17 On argument and evidence in morals

18 On understanding other moralities and the limits of moral pluralism

19 On the analysis of moral systems as a topic for speculation and a source of moral guidance.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 262-263.

ISBN:

0521210755 :

OCLC:

2089090