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Essays on Derek Parfit's On what matters

In Essays on Derek Parfit's On What Matters, seven leading moral philosophers offer critical evaluations of the central ideas presented in a greatly anticipated new work by world-renowned moral philosopher Derek Parfit.: Presents critical assessments of what promises to be one of the key moral...

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Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience Online service
Group Author: Suikkanen, Jussi; Cottingham, John, 1943
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Ratio book series
Subjects:
Parfit, Derek. > On what matters > Congresses
Parfit, Derek
Ethics > Congresses
Practical reason > Congresses
Consequentialism Ethics > Congresses
Philosophie
PHILOSOPHY > Social
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444322880
Summary: In Essays on Derek Parfit's On What Matters, seven leading moral philosophers offer critical evaluations of the central ideas presented in a greatly anticipated new work by world-renowned moral philosopher Derek Parfit.: Presents critical assessments of what promises to be one of the key moral philosophy texts of our time; Features essays by a team of leading philosophers including Princeton's Michael Smith, one of the world's leading meta-ethicists;. Addresses Parfit's central thesis - that the main ethical theories can agree on what matters - as well as his defense of moral realism.
Item Description: "Originally published as volume 22, no. 1 of Ratio"--T.p. verso.
Papers from a conference arranged by the Philosophy Dept. at the University of Reading, November, 2006.
Carrier Form: viii, 159 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781444322880
1444322885
9781444322897 (electronic bk.)
1444322893 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: B1649
CLC: B82-532
Contents: ESSAYS ON DEREK PARFIT'S ON WHAT MATTERS; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; 1: INTRODUCTION; 2: NATURALISM WITHOUT TEARS; 3: CAN THERE BE A KANTIAN CONSEQUENTIALISM?; 4: THE KANTIAN ARGUMENT FOR CONSEQUENTIALISM; 5: CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN?; 6: MIGHT KANTIAN CONTRACTUALISM BE THE SUPREME PRINCIPLE OF MORALITY?; 7: DESIRES, VALUES, REASONS, AND THE DUALISM OF PRACTICAL REASON; 8: SHOULD KANTIANS BE CONSEQUENTIALISTS?; INDEX.

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