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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
'Thinking about Reasons' collects fourteen new essays on ethics and the philosophy of action, inspired by the work of Jonathan Dancy - one of his generation's most influential moral philosophers. Many of the most prominent living thinkers in the area are contributors to this collection, which also contains an afterword by Dancy himself. |
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Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Acting in the Light of a Fact -- 2 Can Action Explanations Ever Be Non-Factive? -- 3 The Ideal of Orthonomous Action, or the How and Why of Buck-Passing -- 4 Dancy on Buck-Passing -- 5 Are Egoism and Consequentialism Self-Refuting? -- 6 In Defence of Non-Deontic Reasons -- 7 The Deontic Structure of Morality -- 8 Morality and Principle -- 9 Moral Particularism: Ethical Not Metaphysical? -- 10 A Quietist Particularism -- 11 Contours of the Practical Landscape -- 12 Why Holists Should Love Organic Unities |
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13 Practical Reasoning and Inference14 Why There Really Are No Irreducibly Normative Properties -- Afterword -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dancy, Jonathan.
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Dancy, Jonathan. |
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Pragmatism.
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Pragmatism. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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pragmatism. |
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ethics (philosophy) |
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philosophy. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Pragmatism. |
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Bakhurst, David.
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Hooker, Brad, 1957-
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Little, Margaret Olivia.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bakhurst, David. Thinking About Reasons. Oxford Scholarship Online 2013 9780199604678 |
| ISBN |
9780191669132 (electronic book) |
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019166913X (electronic book) |
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1299661904 (electronic book) |
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9781299661905 (electronic book) |
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