Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy
Volume 3
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
- Author: David Lewis, Princeton University, New Jersey
- Date Published: January 2000
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521582490
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This volume is devoted to Lewis's work in ethics and social philosophy. Topics covered include the logic of obligation and permission; decision theory and its relation to the idea that beliefs might play the motivating role of desires; a subjectivist analysis of value; dilemmas in virtue ethics; the problem of evil; problems about self-prediction; social coordination, linguistic and otherwise; alleged duties to rescue distant strangers; toleration as a tacit treaty; nuclear warfare; and punishment. This collection, and the two preceding volumes, will disseminate more widely the work of an eminent and influential contemporary philosopher.
Read more- David Lewis is one of the most influential and widely read of contemporary analytic philosophers
- This third and final volume is less technical than the first or second and will appeal to social scientists
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- Date Published: January 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521582490
- length: 268 pages
- dimensions: 224 x 146 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.469kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Semantic analyses for dyadic deontic logic
2. A problem about permission
3. Reply to McMichael
4. Why ain'cha rich?
5. Desire as belief I
6. Desire as belief II
7. Dispositional theories of value
8. The Trap's dilemma
9. Evil for freedom's sake?
10. Do we believe in penal substitution?
11. Convention: reply to Jamieson
12. Meaning without use: reply to Hawthorne
13. Illusory innocence?
14. Mill and Milquetoast
15. Academic appointments: why ignore the advantage of being right?
16. Devil's bargains and the real world
17. Buy like a MADman, use like a NUT
18. The punishment that leaves something to chance
19. Scriven on human unpredictability (with Jane S. Richardson).
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