This volume includes a series of essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents. The long awaited collection comprises some of the most influential of Michael Smith's essays written over a period of fifteen years and will be of interest to students in philosophy and psychology.
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Over the last fifteen years, Michael Smith has written a series of essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents.This long awaited collection comprises some of the most influential of Smith's essays. The volume will be of interest to students in philosophy and psychology.
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Michael Smith is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University.
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According to one popular version of the dispositional theory of value, the version I favour, there is an analytic connection between the desirability of an agent's acting in a certain way in certain circumstances and her having a desire to act in that way in those circumstances if she were fully rational (Rawls 1971: Chapter 7; Brandt 1979: Chapter 1; Smith 1989, 1992, 1994). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unified desire set, absent practical irrationality, evaluative supervenes, desiderative beliefs, evaluative features supervene, outer judgements, maximally informed, normative reason claims, internalism requirement, evaluative naturalism, systematically justifiable set, coherent belief set, facts about desirability, overall desire set, underived desires, tendency towards social stability, idealised desires, desirability judgements, general evaluative belief, naturalistic moral realism, torturing babies, supervenience conditional, practicality requirement, facts about the desires, incoherence argument Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Blanking John, Ignorant John, Michael Smith, Open Question Argument, Pre-emptive Agent, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Journal of Philosophy, Philip Pettit, Clarendon Press, Supplementary Volume, Dispositional Theories of Value, Philosophical Review, Willingly Addicted, John Mackie, Internalism's Wheel, Cambridge University Press, Gary Watson, Naturalistic Moral Realists, Simon Blackburn, Crispin Wright, David Lewis, New York, Bernard Williams, Brad Hooker New!
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According to one popular version of the dispositional theory of value, the version I favour, there is an analytic connection between the desirability of an agent's acting in a certain way in certain circumstances and her having a desire to act in that way in those circumstances if she were fully rational (Rawls 1971: Chapter 7; Brandt 1979: Chapter 1; Smith 1989, 1992, 1994). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unified desire set, absent practical irrationality, evaluative supervenes, desiderative beliefs, evaluative features supervene, outer judgements, maximally informed, normative reason claims, internalism requirement, evaluative naturalism, systematically justifiable set, coherent belief set, facts about desirability, overall desire set, underived desires, tendency towards social stability, idealised desires, desirability judgements, general evaluative belief, naturalistic moral realism, torturing babies, supervenience conditional, practicality requirement, facts about the desires, incoherence argument Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Blanking John, Ignorant John, Michael Smith, Open Question Argument, Pre-emptive Agent, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Journal of Philosophy, Philip Pettit, Clarendon Press, Supplementary Volume, Dispositional Theories of Value, Philosophical Review, Willingly Addicted, John Mackie, Internalism's Wheel, Cambridge University Press, Gary Watson, Naturalistic Moral Realists, Simon Blackburn, Crispin Wright, David Lewis, New York, Bernard Williams, Brad Hooker New!
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- The Moral Problem (Philosophical Theory) by Michael Smith on 20 pages
- THEORIES OF VALUE (Readings in Philosophy of Education) by Philip Smith on 9 pages
- Free Will by Craig Watson on 8 pages
- Free Will (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) by Gary Watson on 8 pages
- Essays on Actions and Events (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson) by Donald Davidson on 6 pages
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- Integrative Sozialtheorie? Esser - Luhmann - Weber (German Edition) by Rainer Greshoff on page 335
- Reasons without Rationalism by Kieran Setiya in Back Matter
- McDowell and His Critics (Philosophers and their Critics) by Cynthia Macdonald in Front Matter
- McDowell and His Critics (Philosophers and their Critics) by Cynthia Macdonald in Front Matter
- Metaethics after Moore by Terry Horgan in Front Matter
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