| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Acting in the Light of a Fact""; ""2 Can Action Explanations Ever Be Non-Factive?""; ""3 The Ideal of Orthonomous Action, or the How and Why of Buck-Passing""; ""4 Dancy on Buck-Passing""; ""5 Are Egoism and Consequentialism Self-Refuting?""; ""6 In Defence of Non-Deontic Reasons""; ""7 The Deontic Structure of Morality""; ""8 Morality and Principle""; ""9 Moral Particularism: Ethical Not Metaphysical?""; ""10 A Quietist Particularism""; ""11 Contours of the Practical Landscape""; ""12 Why Holists Should Love Organic Unities"" |
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""13 Practical Reasoning and Inference""""14 Why There Really Are No Irreducibly Normative Properties""; ""Afterword""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
'Thinking about Reasons' collects fourteen new essays on ethics and the philosophy of action, inspired by the work of Jonathan Dancy - one of his generation's most influential moral philosophers. Many of the most prominent living thinkers in the area are contributors to this collection, which also contains an afterword by Dancy himself |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 1, 2013) |
| Subject |
Dancy, Jonathan
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| SUBJECT |
Dancy, Jonathan fast |
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Ethics.
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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Ethics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bakhurst, David
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Little, Margaret Olivia
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Hooker, Brad, 1957-
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Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
9780191759062 |
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0191759066 |
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