Normativity and the will selected papers on moral psychology and practical reason / R. Jay Wallace.

Author/creator Wallace, R. Jay
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Description347 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents How to argue about practical reason -- Three conceptions of rational agency -- Explanation, deliberation, and reasons -- Normativity and the will -- Normativity, commitment, and instrumental reason -- Reason and responsibility -- Moral responsibility and the practical point of view -- Addiction as defect of the will : some philosophical reflections -- Caring, reflexivity, and the structure of volition -- Ressentiment, value, and self-vindication : making sense of Nietzsche's slave revolt -- Virtue, reason, and principle -- Scanlon's contractualism -- The rightness of acts and the goodness of lives -- Moral reasons and moral fetishes : rationalists and anti-rationalists on moral motivation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2005033114
ISBN9780199287499 (alk. paper)
ISBN019928749X (alk. paper)
ISBN9780199287482 (alk. paper)
ISBN0199287481 (alk. paper)

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