Slaves of the passions / Mark Schroeder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schroeder, Mark Andrew, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Hume, David.

Ethics.

Act (Philosophy).

Agent (Philosophy).

Emotions (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Long claimed to be the dominant conception of practical reason, the Humean theory that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires, is the basis for a range of worries about the objective prescriptivity of morality. As a result, it has come under intense attack in recent decades. A wide variety of arguments have been advanced which purport to show that it is false, or surprisingly, even that it is incoherent. Slaves of the Passions aims to set the recordstraight, by advancing a version of the Humean theory of reasons which withstands this sophisticated array of objections.Mark

Contents:

Reasons and the humean theory

Background conditions

Incoherence and chauvinism

Reduction of the normative

Too many reasons

Too few reasons

Weighting for reasons

Desire

Motivation, knowledge, and virtue

Instrumentalism

Why be humean?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-957572-X

1-281-85307-0

9786611853075

0-19-153847-7

1-4356-3399-7

OCLC:

735626984