Meta-ethics of Values -- Moral Realism, Meta-Ethical Pyrrhonism and Naturalism -- Buck-passing Personal Values -- Reason and Choice -- Volitions, Comparative Value Judgments, and Choice -- The Insignificance of Choice -- Desire and Intention -- The Indeterminacy of Desire and Practical Reason -- The Myth of Objectively Alien Desires -- On the Intelligibility of Bad Acts -- After Anscombe -- Practical Reason -- The Limits of Teleology -- Motivation to the Means -- Thresholds, Vagueness and the Psychology of Small Improvements -- Freedom and Moral Agency -- Taking Liberty with Humean Necessity: Compatibilism and Contingency -- Rational Choice and Evolutionary Fit
Summary
"This book brings together some of the latest developments in moral psychology that were presented at a conference in 2004. Essays in this collection deal with central issues in moral psychology."--Jacket
Notes
"All of the papers in this volume were presented at the Conference on Values, Rational Choice, and the Will held at the University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point in April 2004"--Page v
