Roeser Reid on Ethics

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-24682-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Philosophers in Depth

This is the first edited collection to bring together classic pieces and new work by leading scholars of Thomas Reid. The contributors explore key elements of Reid's ideas about moral epistemology, moral emotions, moral agency and practical ethics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roeser, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reid's Moral Philosophy; S.Roeser PART I: REID'S MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY Reid, the Moral Faculty, and First Principles; K.Lehrer Reid on Natural Signs, Taste and Moral Perception; E.Kroeker Thomas Reid on Moral Disagreement; W.Davis PART II: THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN REID'S ETHICS Reid Making Sense of Moral Sense; A.Broadie Reid and Modern Theories of Emotions; M.Ledwig PART III: REID ON MORAL AGENCY Thomas Reid on Determinism; R.Van Woudenberg A Second Look at Reid's First Argument for Moral Liberty; D.McDermid Beyond the Brave Officer: Reid on the Unity of the Mind, the Moral Sense, and Locke's Theory of Personal Identity; G.Yaffe PART IV: REID'S VIEWS ON PRACTICAL ETHICS Reid on Justice; N.Wolterstorff Reid on Hume on Justice; J.Harris The Significance of Reid's Practical Ethics; G.Graham Duty, Goodness, and God in Thomas Reid's Moral Philosophy; T.Cuneo Consolidated Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ALEXANDER BROADIE is Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, University of Glasgow (a chair once occupied by Adam Smith) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK
TERENCE CUNEO is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Vermont, USA
WILLIAM C. DAVIS is a Professor of Philosophy and the Chair of the Philosophy Department, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, USA
GORDON GRAHAM is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Director of the Princeton Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, USA
JAMES HARRIS teaches philosophy at University of St Andrews, UK
ESTHER R. KROEKER is a Research Fellow, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
MARION LEDWIG is currently visiting assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
KEITH LEHRER holds the following positions: Regents Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, Research Professor at University of Miami, and Honorary Professor at University of Graz
DOUGLAS MCDERMID is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada
RENÉ VAN WOUDENBERG has the chair in Metaphysics and Epistemology, Department of Philosophy of VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
NICHOLAS WOLTERSTORFF is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University and Senior Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, USA
GIDEON YAFFE is Associate Professor of Philosophy andLaw at the University of Southern California, USA