Reading Parfit (eBook, ePUB)

On What Matters
Redaktion: Kirchin, Simon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reading Parfit: On What Matters is an outstanding overview and assessment of Parfit's monumental work by a team of international contributors, and includes replies by Parfit himself. It discusses central features of Parfit's book, including the structure and nature of reasons; the ideas underlying moral principles; the relationship between consequentialism, contractualism and Kantian deontology; and many important positions and arguments in current metaethics such as expressivism and moral realism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351847179
• Artikelnr.: 49984209

Autorenporträt

Contributors: David Copp, J.L. Dowell and David Sobel, Julia Driver, Simon Kirchin, David McNaughton and Piers Rawling, Julia Markovits, Derek Parfit, Douglas W. Portmore, Kieran Setiya and Philip Stratton-Lake. Simon Kirchin is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Kent. He is the author of Metaethics (2012) and is the editor of Arguing about Metaethics (with Andrew Fisher) (Routledge, 2006). Derek Parfit (1942-2017) was for many years a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, retiring as Senior Research Fellow in 2010, whereupon he became an Emeritus Fellow. He also held visiting professorships at New York University, Harvard and Rutgers.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
SIMON KIRCHIN
1. Reflections from Wolf and Wood: Incommensurability, Guidance, and the
'Smoothing Over' of Ethical Life
SIMON KIRCHIN
2. Normative Naturalism and Normative Nihilism: Parfit's Dilemma for
Naturalism.
DAVID COPP
3. On what it is to Matter
JULIA MARKOVITS
4. The Buck-Passing Account of Value: Assessing the Negative Thesis
PHILIP STRATTON-LAKE
5. Normativity, Reasons and Wrongness: How to be a Two-Tiered Theorist
DAVID McNAUGHTON and PIERS RAWLING
6. Wrong-making Reasons
KIERAN SETIYA
7. Parfit on Reasons and Rule Consequentialism
DOUGLAS W. PORTMORE
8. Advice for Non-analytic Naturalists
J. L. DOWELL and DAVID SOBEL
9. Contingency and Constructivism
JULIA DRIVER
10. Responses
DEREK PARFIT
Index
Index