In these three Tanner lectures, distinguished ethical theorist Allan Gibbardexplores the nature of normative thought and the bases of ethics. In these three Tanner lectures, distinguished ethical theorist Allan Gibbard explores thenature of normative thought and the bases of ethics. In the first lecture he explores the role of intuitions in moral thinking and offers a way of thinkingabout the intuitive method of moral inquiry that both places this activity within the natural world and makes sense of it as an indispensable part of our lives as planners. In the second and third lectures he takes up the kind of substantiveethical inquiry he has described in the first lecture, asking how we might live together on terms that none of us could reasonably reject. Since working atcross purposes loses fruits that might stem from cooperation, he argues, any consistent ethos that meets this test would be, in a crucial way,utilitarian. It would reconcile our individual aims to establish, in Kant's phrase, a "kingdom of ends." The volume also contains an introduction by Barry Stroud, the volume editor, critiques by Michael Bratman (Stanford University),John Broome (Oxford University), and F. M. Kamm (Harvard University), and Gibbard's responses. INDICE: Introduction by Barry Stroud Reconciling Our Aims I. Insight, Consistency, and Plans for Living II. Living Together: Economic and Moral ArgumentIII. Common Goals and the Ideal Social Contract Appendix: The Harsanyi-like Result; Comments: Normative Thinking and Planning, Individual and Shared by Michael Bratman Comments on Allan Gibbard byJohn Broome Should You Save This Child? Gibbard on Intuitions, Contractualism, and Strains of Commitment by F. M. Kamm Reply to Commentators by Allan Gibbard Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-982672-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 07/07/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés