On what matters. Volume three / Derek Parfit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parfit, Derek, author.

Series:

Berkeley Tanner lectures.

The Berkeley Tanner lectures

On what matters ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 468 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Derek Parfit presents the third volume of 'On What Matters', his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences.

Contents:

Part 7: Irreducibly normative truths. How things might matter ; Non-realist cognitivism ; Normative and natural truths ; Gibbard's offer to non-naturalists ; Railton's defence of soft naturalism ; Railton's resolution of our disagreements ; Jackson's non-empirical normative truths ; Schroeder's conservative reductive thesis

Part 8: Expressivist truths. Quasi-realist expressivism ; Gibbard's resolution of our disagreements ; Another triple theory

Part 9: Normative and psychological reasons. Expressivist reasons ; Subjectivist reasons ; Street's meta-ethical constructivism ; Morality, blame, and internal reasons ; Nietzsche's mountain

Part 10: Ethics. What matters and universal reasons ; Conflicting reasons ; The right and the good ; Deontological principles ; Act consequentialism and common sense morality ; Towards a unified theory.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-185348-8

0-19-108436-0