On what matters / Derek Parfit ; edited and introduced by Samuel Scheffler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parfit, Derek.

Contributor:

Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Scheffler, Samuel, 1951-

Series:

Berkeley Tanner lectures

The Berkeley Tanner Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This book is about reasons, value, and morality. There are summaries near the start of all three volumes. Each volume can be bought and read on its own. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 7 Irreducibly Normative Truths

37 How Things Might Matter 41

128 Caring and Having Reasons to Care 41

129 Philosophical Disagreements 50

38 Non-Realist Cognitivism 55

130 Meta-Ethics 55

131 Ontology 58

39 Normative and Natural Truths 65

132 Concepts and Properties 65

133 The Co-Extensiveness Argument 71

134 The Normativity Objection 72

135 Scientific Analogies 75

136 The Triviality Objection 84

40 Gibbard's Offer to Non-Naturalists 87

137 The Single Property Illusion 87

138 Naturalistic States of Affairs and Normative Truths 88

41 Railton's Defence of Soft Naturalism 91

139 The Identity of Properties 91

140 Railton's First Response to the Triviality Objection 95

42 Railton's Resolution of Our Disagreements 99

141 Railton's Wider View 99

142 What is Achieved by Railton's Wider View 102

143 Railton's Commentary 113

43 Jackson's Non-Empirical Normative Truths 128

144 Jackson's Co-Extensiveness Argument 128

145 Jackson's Metaphysical Assumptions 132

44 Schroeder's Conservative Reductive Thesis 137

146 Schroeders Criticisms of the Triviality Objection 137

147 How Schroeder and I Could Resolve our Disagreements 143

148 How I Misled Russell 159

Part 8 Expressivist Truths

45 Quasi-Realist Expressivism 165

149 Desires, Attitudes, and Beliefs 165

150 Earning the Right to Talk of Moral Truth 176

46 Gibbard's Resolution of Our Disagreements 182

151 Gibbard's Convergence Claim 182

152 Does it Matter Whether Things Matter? 184

153 Getting It Right 191

154 Gibbard's Metaphysical Doubts 197

47 Another Triple Theory 205

155 Gibbard's Commentary 205

156 A Happy Ending 224

Part 9 Normative and Psychological Reasons

48 Expressivist Reasons 241

157 Blackburn's Bafflement 241

158 Blackburn's Beliefs about Reasons 244

49 Subjectivist Reasons 251

159 Smith's Defence of Subjectivism 251

160 Street's Defence of Subjectivism 255

50 Street's Meta-Ethical Constructivism 264

161 Street's Debunking Arguments 264

162 Street's Relativism 268

163 The Normative Implications of Street's View 279

164 Chappell's Claims about Street 285

51 Morality, Blame, and Internal Reasons 291

165 Darwall's Claims about Internal Reasons 291

166 Darwall's Defence of Moral Internalism 299

52 Nietzsche's Mountain 309

167 Nietzsche and the Convergence Claim 309

Part 10 Ethics

53 What Matters and Universal Reasons 315

168 The Any-All Thesis 315

169 Universalism about What Matters 330

54 Conflicting Reasons 335

170 Sidgwick's Problem 335

171 Moral and Self-interested Reasons 338

172 Other Problems 342

55 The Right and the Good 349

173 Moral Ambivalence 349

174 The Badness of Wrongdoing 354

175 Moral and Impartial Reasons 357

176 Wrongness and Reasons 366

56 Deontological Principles 369

177 The Means Principle 369

178 Harming and Saving from Harm 383

57 Act Consequentialism and Common Sense Morality 395

179 Good and Bad Ways of Treating People 395

180 Deontic and Non-Deontic Badness 400

181 Personal and Shared Duties 406

58 Towards a Unified Theory 413

182 Act Consequentialism 413

183 Rule and Motive Consequentialism 417

184 Optimific Motives and Rules 419

185 Small Effects and Great Harms 422

186 Inconclusive Conclusions 433.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

ISBN:

9780199572809

0199572801

9780199572816

019957281X

9780199265923

0199265925

OCLC:

428731337