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Author Koons, Jeremy Randel, author.

Title The ethics of Wilfrid Sellars / Jeremy Randel Koons
Edition 1 [edition]
Published New York : Taylor and Francis, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge studies in American philosophy
Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
Routledge studies in American philosophy.
Contents Situating Sellars's ethical in the contemporary landscape -- Sellars's synoptic vision -- A new naturalism -- Moral judgments as shared intentions -- What are Sellarsian we-intentions? -- Practical reasoning and the logic of intentions -- Material practical inference -- Cooperative rationality and we-intentions -- Defeasible rules and the particularist challenge -- Rules, pattern-governed behavior, and collective attitudes -- Moral motivation 1, against the humean account -- Moral motivation 2, Sellars's Kantian account -- Against moral foundationalism -- Categorical validity and the necessity of community -- Sellars's mistaken formalism -- Sellars's ethical naturalism
Summary Wilfrid Sellars's ethical theory was rich and deeply innovative. On Sellars's view, moral judgments express a special kind of shared intention. Thus, we should see Sellars as an early advocate of an expressivism of plans and intentions, and an early theorist of collective intentionality. He supplemented this theory with a sophisticated logic of intentions, a robust theory of the categorical validity of normative expressions, a subtle way of reconciling the cognitive and motivating aspects of moral judgment, and much more-all within a strict nominalism that preserves Sellars's commitment to naturalism. The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars offers the first systematic treatment of this sadly-neglected aspect of Sellars's work, and demonstrates that his ethical theory-just like his more widely-discussed epistemology-has much to contribute to current debates
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Sellars, Wilfrid.
SUBJECT Sellars, Wilfrid fast
Subject Ethics.
Ethics
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
American philosophy.
Brandom.
categorical validity.
cooperative rationality.
derivative concern.
ethical theory.
expressivism.
Humean rejoinder.
I-intentions.
individual rationality.
intentions.
intrinsic validity.
Jeremy Koons.
McDowell.
material inference.
material practical inference.
metaethics.
moral judgments.
moral motivation.
moral reasoning.
motivation.
non-derivative concern.
norm-expressivism.
objectivity.
practical reasoning.
rationality.
realism.
Sellars.
scientific view of the world.
scope restrictions.
Toward a Sellarsian Ethics for the 21st Century.
team reasoning.
Wilfrid Sellars.
Willem deVries.
we-intentions.
Ethics
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020693340
ISBN 9781351781176
1351781170
9781351781183
1351781189
9781351781169
1351781162
9781315201160
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