Unprincipled Virtue An Inquiry Into Moral Agency

by Arpaly, Nomy

• ISBN13: 9780195152043
• ISBN10: 0195152042
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Nomy Arpaly rejects the model of rationality used by most philosophers andpsychologists. Both observation and psychology indicate that people actrationally without deliberation, and act irrationally with deliberation. Byquestioning the notion that our own minds are comprehensible to us--andtherefore questioning much of the current work of action theorists andethicists--Arpaly attempts to develop a more realistic conception of moralagency.

Author Biography

Nomy Arpaly is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rice University.

Table of Contents

The Complexity of Moral Psychology	p. 3
On Acting Rationally against One's Best Judgment	p. 33
Moral Worth	p. 67
Varieties of Autonomy	p. 117
Blame, Autonomy, and Problem Cases	p. 149
Notes	p. 181
References	p. 191
Index	p. 197
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