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Title Meaning and morality : essays on the philosophy of Julius Kovesi / edited by Alan Tapper and T. Brian Mooney
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Series Studies in moral philosophy, 2211-2014 ; v. 3
Studies in moral philosophy (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 3
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Kovesi's Refutation of Hume / Bernard Harrison -- 2. Kovesi's Moral Point of View / R.E. Ewin -- 3. Kovesi, Connaturality, and the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Virtues / John N. Williams -- 4. Moral Notions and Originality and Some Examples: Reflections on Kovesi / Peter A. French -- 5. What's Morality Got To Do With It? Making the Right Distinctions / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 6. MacIntyre and Kovesi on the Nature of Moral Concepts / Alan Tapper -- 7. Kovesi and Legal Reasoning / Dennis Patterson -- 8. Kovesi and Searle: Thinking in Parallel? / James Doughney -- 9. Kovesi on Natural World Concepts and the Theory of Meaning / Alan Tapper -- 10. Kovesi's Concepts and Plato's Ideas / Lee Churchman
Summary The essays in this volume address the importance of Kovesi's work on moral philosophy and concept formation. The essays extend Kovesi's insights on moral philosophy into broader areas and compares and contrasts his work with that of key ancient and contemporary thinkers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Kovesi, Julius.
Kovesi, Julius. Moral notions
SUBJECT Kovesi, Julius fast
Subject Ethics -- Australia
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
Ethics
Australia
Form Electronic book
Author Tapper, Alan
Mooney, T. Brian
LC no. 2012019251
ISBN 9789004232556
9004232559
1280995661
9781280995668
9786613767271
6613767271