| Description |
ix, 268 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface; Introduction: the place and plan of the enquiry; Part I. On the Formal Structure of Practical Thinking: 1. The logical foundations of practical thinking; 2. On the formal structure of ontological and deontological constraints; 3. On the formal structure of probabilistic thinking; 4. On the formal structure of thinking about practical preferences; Part II. Aspects and Kinds of Practical Evaluation: 5. On chosen interventions in the course of nature; 6. Agents and their actions; 7. Practical attitudes: their objects and levels; 8. On some common characterizations of actions and agents; 9. Principles of practical evaluation; 10. On the relation between evaluative and regulative standards of conduct; 11. Morality; 12. Justice; 13. Prudence and welfare; 14. Morality, prudence and legality; 15. On pragmatic and practical idealizations; Part III. On the Epistemology and Metaphysics of Practical Thinking: 16. On the relation between cognitive and practical rationality; 17. On argument and evidence in morals; 18. On understanding other moralities and the limits of moral pluralism; 19. On the analysis of moral systems as a topic for speculation and a source of moral guidance; References; Index |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-263) and index |
| Subject |
Experience.
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Practice (Philosophy)
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Reasoning.
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Thought and thinking.
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| Author |
Dewan, Edmond, 1931-
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| LC no. |
75044578 |
| ISBN |
0521210755 |
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9780521210751 |
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