| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 388 pages). |
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| Series |
Cambridge studies in philosophy
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Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Moral psychology. Internal reasons -- Incoherence argument : reply to Schafer-Landau -- Philosophy and commonsense : the case of weakness of will / co-authored with Jeanette Kennett -- Frog and Toad lose control / co-authored with Jeanette Kennett -- A theory of freedom and responsibility -- Rational capacities -- On Humeans, anti-Humeans, and motivation : a reply to Pettit -- Humeanism, psychologism, and the normative story -- Possibility of philosophy of action -- pt. 2. Meta-ethics. Moral realism -- Does the evaluative supervene on the natural? -- Objectivity and moral realism : on the significance of the phenomenology of moral experience -- In defense of The moral problem : a reply to Brink, Copp, and Sayre-McCord -- Exploring the implications of the dispositional theory of value -- Internalism's wheel -- Evaluation, uncertainty, and motivation -- Ethics and the a priori : a modern parable. |
| Summary |
Over the last fifteen years, Michael Smith has written a series of essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethics.
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Ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Michael (Michael A.). Ethics and the a priori. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2003065394 |
| ISBN |
9780511606977 (electronic book) |
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0511606974 (electronic book) |
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9780521809870 (hardback) |
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9780511316722 |
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0521809878 (Cloth) |
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0521007739 (Paper) |
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