Normativity and the Will
Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 16 March 2006
- ISBN 9780199287482
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 242x161x26 mm
- Weight 683 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important _ papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay _ Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working_ in these areas. The papers explore the interpenetration of_ normative and psychological issues in a series of debates _ that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Themes that are_ addressed include reason, desire, and the will; _ responsibility, identification, and emotion; and the _ relation between morality and other normative domains. _ Wallace's treatments of these topics are at once _ sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason, and _ they articulate and defend a unified framework for thinking about those issues. The volume also features a helpful new_ introduction.
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Long description:
Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important _ papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay _ Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working_ in these areas.
The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and _ psychological issues in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Part I, Reason, Desire, and the_ Will, discusses the nexus linking normativity to motivation, including the relations between desire and reasons, the role of normative considerations in explanations of action, and_ the normative commitments involved in willing an end (such_ as the requirement to adopt the necessary means). Part II,_ Responsibility, Identification, and Emotion, looks at _ questions about the rational capacities presupposed by _ accountable agency and the psychic factors that both inhibit and enable identification with what we do. It includes an interpretation of the Nietzschean claim that ressentiment is among the sources of modern moral consciousness. Part III,_ Morality and Other Normative Domains, addresses the _ structure of moral reasons and moral motivation, and the _ relations between moral demands and other normative domains (including especially the requirements of living a _ meaningful human life).
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_ Wallace's treatments of these topics are at once _ sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason. The _ book articulates and defends a unified framework for _ thinking about those issues, while offering sustained _ critical discussions of other influential approaches (by _ philosophers such as Korsgaard, McDowell, Nietzsche, Raz, Scanlon, and Williams). It should be of interest to every _ serious student of moral philosophy. _
This collection shows Wallace to be a consummate cartographer of philosophical terrain...There is much to be learned from Wallace's arresting and inventive interventions into many disputes of keen, contemporary interest...it should be noted that Wallace is an engaging and elegant philosophical stylist and, so, these essays are a real pleasure to read.
Table of Contents:
I. Reason, Desire, and the Will
How to Argue about Practical Reason
Three Conceptions of Rational Agency
Explanation, Deliberation, and Reasons
Normativity and the Will
Normativity, Commitment, and Instrumental Reason
II. Responsibility, Identification, and Emotion
Reason and Responsibility
Moral Responsibility and the Practical Point of View
Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some Philosophical Reflections
Caring, Reflexivity, and the Structure of Volition
Ressentiment, Value, and Self-Vindication: Making Sense of Nietzsche's Slave Revolt
III. Morality and Other Normative Domains
Virtue, Reason, and Principle
Scanlon's Contractualism
The Rightness of Acts and the Goodness of Lives
Moral Reasons and Moral Fetishes: Rationalists and Anti-Rationalists on Moral Motivation
