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“john bengson”

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  • The Moral Universe

    by John Bengson, Terence Cuneo, Russ Shafer-Landau ...
    The Moral Universe marks an importance advance in metaethical thinking, offering the most sustained and sophisticated development of nonnaturalistic moral realism to date. Employing a novel philosophical method, it addresses central questions in metaethics concerning the nature of moral reality, its fundamental laws, its relation to the natural world, and its normative authority.The authors ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Knowing How

    Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action

    Edited by John Bengson, Marc A. Moffett ...
    Knowledge how to do things is a pervasive and central element of everyday life. Yet it raises many difficult questions that must be answered by philosophers and cognitive scientists aspiring to understand human cognition and agency. What is the connection between knowing how and knowing that? Is knowledge how simply a type of ability or disposition to act? Is there an irreducibly practical form of ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Philosophical Methodology

    From Data to Theory

    by John Bengson, Terence Cuneo, Russ Shafer-Landau ...
    Philosophical Methodology is a book addressed to the entire philosophical community. It develops a novel account of the structure and goals of inquiry, offers the first systematic discussion of philosophical data, and assesses extant philosophical methods. Introducing a new method for doing philosophy, it positions theorists to better understand their topics while also revealing how philosophy can ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The View From Nowhere

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular". At the same time, each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own "personal" view of the world, a view that we can ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Moral Imagination

    Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics

    by Mark Johnson ...
    Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Metaethics

    An Introduction

    by Alexander Miller ...
    This new edition of Alexander Miller’s highly readable introduction to contemporary metaethics provides a critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G. E. Moore up to the most recent arguments between naturalism and non ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism

    Edited by Alan Malachowski ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Pragmatism established a philosophical presence over a century ago through the work of Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, and has enjoyed an unprecedented revival in recent years owing to the pioneering efforts of Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam. The essays in this volume explore the history and themes of classic pragmatism, discuss the revival of pragmatism and show how it engages with ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Reasons without Rationalism

    by Kieran Setiya ...
    Modern philosophy has been vexed by the question "Why should I be moral?" and by doubts about the rational authority of moral virtue. In Reasons without Rationalism, Kieran Setiya shows that these doubts rest on a mistake. The "should" of practical reason cannot be understood apart from the virtues of character, including such moral virtues as justice and benevolence, and the considerations to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Pragmatism

    The Restoration of Its Scientific Roots

    Edited by Nicholas Rescher ...
    Pragmatism is rooted in the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice. Pragmatism was intended, by Charles S. Peirce, its founder, as a doctrine for the rational substantiation of knowledge claims. For Peirce, what mattered was successful prediction and control. Practice ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Pragmatism and Realism

    by Frederick L. Will, Kenneth R. Westphal, Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    Series series Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory
    "I have no doubt at all, that if philosophy is to prosper in the coming decades, it will have to treat with great seriousness that splendid seriousness that splendid body of philosophical writing of which the essays in this volume constitute one major part". from the Foreword by Alasdair MacIntyre When historians of philosophy turn to the work of distinguished philosopher Frederick L. Will, ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • A Companion to Relativism

    Edited by Steven D. Hales ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    A Companion to Relativism presents original contributions from leading scholars that address the latest thinking on the role of relativism in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics.Features original contributions from many of the leading figures working on various aspects of relativismPresents a substantial, broad range of current thinking ... Read more

    $59.25 USD

  • The Social Theory of Practices

    Tradition, Tacit Knowledge and Prepositions

    by Stephen P. Turner ...
    This book presents the first analysis and critique of the idea of practice as it has developed in the various theoretical traditions of the social sciences and the humanities. The concept of a practice, understood broadly as a tacit possession that is 'shared' by and the same for different people, has a fatal difficulty, the author argues. This object must in some way be transmitted, 'reproduced', ... Read more

    $19.00 USD