Normativity

by Sosa, Ernest; Villanueva, Enrique

• ISBN13: 9781405138116
• ISBN10: 1405138114
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume of Philosophical Issues, on normativity, has unusually broad scope, and should have correspondingly broad appeal both because of its issues and because of its contributors. This volume includes pieces on moral psychology, theory of reasons and rationality, political philosophy, ethics, metaethics, and epistemology. Includes a book symposium on Brad Hooker's Ideal Code, Real World, with contributions by Richard Arneson and Alison McIntyre, along with Brad Hooker's response.

Author Biography

Ernest Sosa is a Professor of Philosophy at Brown University and Rutgers University. He is author of Knowledge in Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and of papers in metaphysics and epistemology.

Enrique Villanueva is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is author of papers and books in philosophy of mind and history of philosophy, and editor of Philosophical Issues from 1992 to 2000.

Table of Contents

METAETHICS
Two Arguments for Sentimentalism	1	(21)
Justin D'arms
The Open Question Argument: What it Isn't; and What it Is	22	(22)
Fred Feldman
Moral Particularism and Transduction	44	(12)
Gilbert Harman
Moral Phenomenology and Moral Theory	56	(22)
Terry Horgan
Mark Timmons
The Frege-Geach Point	78	(16)
Paul Horwich
What Are Cognitivists Doing When They Do Normative Ethics?	94	(13)
Frank Jackson
Error Theory and the Possibility of Normative Ethics	107	(14)
Russ Shafer-Landau
NORMATIVE ETHICS
Wrongs Within Rights	121	(19)
Robert Audi
Ross and Utilitarianism on Promise Keeping and Lying: Self-Evidence and the Data of Ethics	140	(18)
Thomas L. Carson
Assessing Moral Rules: Utilitarian and Kantian Perspectives	158	(21)
Thomas E. Hill, Jr
Kantian Fairness	179	(14)
George Sher
You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourself (When you Violate an Imperfect Moral Obligation)	193	(16)
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
The Dualism of the Ethical	209	(9)
Michael Slote
A ``New'' Principle of Aggregation	218	(17)
Larry Temkin
Book Symposium on Brad Hooker's Ideal Code, Real World
Sophisticated Rule Consequentialism: Some Simple Objections	235	(17)
Richard Arneson
The Perils of Holism: Brad Hooker's Ideal Code, Real World	252	(12)
Alison Mcintyre
Reply to Arneson and McIntyre	264	(18)
Brad Hooker
CONTENT AND NORMATIVITY
How it is not ``Just Like Diabetes'': Mental Disorders and the Moral Psychologist	282	(17)
Nomy Arpaly
A New Map of Theories of Mental Content: Locating Normative Theories	299	(22)
Mark Greenberg
RATIONALITY AND TRUTH
Does Rationality Give Us Reasons	321	(17)
John Broome
Truth and Correct Belief	338	(13)
Allan Gibbard
APPLIED ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Political Authority and the Tyranny of Non-Consent	351	(17)
David Estlund
Moral Arrogance and Moral Therories	368	(18)
Bernard Gert
The Basis of Moral Liability to Defensive Killing	386
Jeff Mcmahan