Alan Thomas

Value and Context

The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge

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Produktbeschreibung

Alan Thomas articulates and defends the view that human beings do possess moral and political knowledge but it is historically and culturally contextual knowledge in ways that, say, mathematical or chemical knowledge is not. He makes wide-ranging use of contemporary work in epistemology, moral philosophy, and political theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780199587278
• ISBN-10: 0199587272
• Artikelnr.: 29931703

Autorenporträt

Alan Thomas is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Newcastle University and works as a consultant psychiatrist in the National Health Service. A church elder with preaching and pastoral responsibilities, he is married to Shona and they have three adult children.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: Moral Knowledge and Moral Reasons
1: The Problem of Moral Knowledge
2: The Case for Cognitivism
3: Values, Norms and the Practical
4: Internal Reasons and Contractualist Impartiality
Part Two: Norm-Expressivism and Non-Objectivism
5: A Critique of Expressivism
6: Non-Objectivism and Internal Realism
Part Three: Contextualist Moral Justification
7: Epistemological Contextualism
8: A Contextual Model of Moral Justification
9: Tradition Based Moral Enquiry
10: Moral Belief and the Possibility of Error
Part Four: Contextualism in Political Philosophy
11: Political Liberalism and Contextualism
12: Political Liberalism and Civic Republicanism
Conclusion