The Authority of Reason
- Author: Jean E. Hampton
- Date Published: March 2011
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This challenging and provocative book argues against much contemporary orthodoxy in philosophy and the social sciences by showing why objectivity in the domain of ethics is really no different from the objectivity of scientific knowledge. Many philosophers and social scientists have challenged the idea that we act for objectively authoritative reasons. Jean Hampton takes up the challenge by undermining two central assumptions of this contemporary orthodoxy: that one can understand instrumental reasons without appeal to objective authority, and that the adoption of the scientific world view requires no such appeal. In the course of the book Jean Hampton examines moral realism, the general nature of reason and norms, internalism and externalism, instrumental reasoning, and the expected utility model of practical reasoning. The book is sure to prove to be a seminal work in the theory of rationality that will be read by a broad swathe of philosophers and social scientists.
Read more- Major book on the theory of rationality that will interest philosophers, economists, psychologists, legal theorists
- Jean Hampton (now deceased) was an internationally respected philosopher and very well-known all over the world
- Author of Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge 1988)
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The Authority of Reason that philosophers working in meta-ethics and decision theory will find of interest.' The Philosophical Quarterly
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511821356
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Science and Objective Norms:
1. Naturalism and moral reasons
2. The anatomy of a reason
3. Reasons' authority
Part II. Instrumental Reason:
4. Instrumental Reason
5. Why instrumental reasoning isn't instrumental
6. Instrumental reasoning and the methodology of science
Part III. Reasons and Reasoning:
7. Expected utility theory and instrumental reasoning
8. Expected utility theory and consequentialism
9. Toward a 'post-naturalist' theory of reasons.
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