Mind, Morality, and Explanation

Selected Collaborations
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-925337-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

This volume collects the best of the work of Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith, showcasing their contributions to philosophical psychology, the theory of psychological and social explanation, moral theory and moral psychology.I. PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY; 1. In Defence of Folk Psychology; 2. Folk Belief and Commonplace Belief; 3. Causation in the Philosophy of Mind; 4. Some Content is Narrow; II. PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL EXPLANATION; 5. Functionalism and Broad Content; 6. Program Explanation: A General Perspective; 7. Structural Explanation in Social Theory; 8. In Defence of Explanatory Ecumenism; III. MORAL THEORY; 9. Moral Functionalism and Moral Motivation; 10. Ethical Particularism and Patterns; 11. Minimalism and Truth-Aptness; 12. A Problem for Expressivism; IV. MORAL PSYCHOLOGY; 13. Backgrounding Desire; 14. Parfit's P; 15. Practical Unreason; 16. Brandt on Self-Control; 17. Freedom in Belief and Desire

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Frank

Pettit, Philip

Smith, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

(Research School of Social Sciences, Australian Nati