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Author Smith, Michael, 1954 July 23-

Title Ethics and the a priori : selected essays on moral psychology and meta-ethics / Michael Smith
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 388 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in philosophy
Cambridge studies in philosophy
Contents pt. 1. Moral psychology. Internal reasons -- The incoherence argument : reply to Schafer-Landau -- Philosophy and commonsense : the case of weakness of will / co-authored with Jeanette Kennett -- Frog and Toad lose control / co-authored with Jeanette Kennett -- A theory of freedom and responsibility -- Rational capacities -- On Humeans, anti-Humeans, and motivation : a reply to Pettit -- Humeanism, psychologism, and the normative story -- The possibility of philosophy of action -- pt. 2. Meta-ethics. Moral realism -- Does the evaluative supervene on the natural? -- Objectivity and moral realism : on the significance of the phenomenology of moral experience -- In defense of The moral problem : a reply to Brink, Copp, and Sayre-McCord -- Exploring the implications of the dispositional theory of value -- Internalism's wheel -- Evaluation, uncertainty, and motivation -- Ethics and the a priori : a modern parable
Summary Over the last fifteen years, Michael Smith has written a series of essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ethics.
Ethics
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics
Moralpsychologie
Metaethik
Meta-ethiek.
Psychologie.
Filosofische aspecten.
Form Electronic book
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