Natural reasons : personality and polity / S.L. Hurley.

Title
  1. Natural reasons : personality and polity / S.L. Hurley.
Published by
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Author
  1. Hurley, S. L. (Susan L.)

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Description
  1. xii, 462 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Decision making > Moral and ethical aspects
  2. Jurisprudence
Contents
  1. Relations Between Mind and Value -- Objectivity -- Terminology and distinctions: cognitivism, realism, centralism, and objectivism about reasons for action -- Parallels: centralism about colour, law, and logic, and some preliminary doubts -- Wittgensteinian and Davidsonian arguments applied against centralism, and how the issue about centralism cuts across the issue about cognitivism -- A coherence account and the threats of overdetermination and of indeterminacy -- Disagreement -- A coherence account and the locus of disagreement -- Disagreement in form of life and substantive disagreement -- Practices as criteria of agreement in form of life; constraints on interpretation vs. ultra-interpretations -- The antecedence doctrine and substantive disagreement; disagreement about colours? -- Uncontestable concepts -- Conceivably contestable concepts -- Essentially contested concepts -- The shifting locus of substantive disagreement and the limits of substantive and conceptual difference -- Preference -- Survey of the arguments of three chapters and introduction to the 'problem' of the eligibility of interpretations -- Conceptions of the preference relation and examples of the 'problem' involving transitivity -- An intuitive introduction to the general idea of independence conditions -- Mutual Preferential Independence and the individuation of criteria -- The argument yet again, this time concerning Independence and the individuation of alternatives: axiom-conservatism vs. data-conservatism -- Interpretation.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-454).
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