Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong, Harrison Jonathan

Автор: Balaguer Mark
Название: Free Will
ISBN: 0262525798 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262525794
Издательство: MIT Press
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A philosopher considers whether the scientific and philosophical arguments against free will are reason enough to give up our belief in it.

In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're in control of actions like these; if we are, then we have free will. But in recent years, some have argued that free will is an illusion. The neuroscientist (and best-selling author) Sam Harris and the late Harvard psychologist Daniel Wegner, for example, claim that certain scientific findings disprove free will. In this engaging and accessible volume in the Essential Knowledge series, the philosopher Mark Balaguer examines the various arguments and experiments that have been cited to support the claim that human beings don't have free will. He finds them to be overstated and misguided.

Balaguer discusses determinism, the view that every physical event is predetermined, or completely caused by prior events. He describes several philosophical and scientific arguments against free will, including one based on Benjamin Libet's famous neuroscientific experiments, which allegedly show that our conscious decisions are caused by neural events that occur before we choose. He considers various religious and philosophical views, including the philosophical pro-free-will view known as compatibilism. Balaguer concludes that the anti-free-will arguments put forward by philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists simply don't work. They don't provide any good reason to doubt the existence of free will. But, he cautions, this doesn't necessarily mean that we have free will. The question of whether we have free will remains an open one; we simply don't know enough about the brain to answer it definitively.

Автор: Stich Stephen
Название: Collected Papers, Volume 2: Knowledge, Rationality, and Morality, 1978-2010
ISBN: 0199733473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199733477
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This volume collects the best and most influential essays on knowledge, rationality and morality that Stephen Stich has published in the last 40 years. The volume includes a new introductory essay that offers an overview of the papers and traces the history of how they emerged.

Автор: Williamson Timothy
Название: Tetralogue
ISBN: 0198777175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198777175
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Описание: Four people with radically different views meet on a train and talk about what they believe. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right; then doubts creep in. Timothy Williamson uses a fictional conversation to explore the philosophical debate over whether one point of view can be right and the other wrong. He invites the reader to decide.

Автор: Harrison Jonathan
Название: Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong
ISBN: 0415849101 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415849104
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: M. Iglesias Vila
Название: Facing Judicial Discretion
ISBN: 9048156378 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048156375
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Описание: In response to ETA`s 1997 kidnappings and murders thousands of Spaniards attended mass demonstrations to express their contempt for violence as a means of political pressure. While from the latter viewpoint citizens wish for the creation of new legal norms, from the former they are just calling for the application of the law.

Автор: Edmonds David
Название: Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
ISBN: 0691165637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691165639
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In this book, David Edmonds, coauthor of the best-selling Wittgenstein`s Poker, tells the riveting story of why and how philosophers have struggled with the ethical dilemma posed by the trolley problem. In the process, he provides an entertaining and informative tour through the history of moral philosophy.

Автор: Wiebke-Marie Stock
Название: Plotinus Ennead III.4: On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit: Translation with an Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: 1733535705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733535700
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Описание: On Our Allotted Guardian Spirit is a lively and at times perplexing text combining general reflections on the nature of the soul with a discussion of the phenomenon of a personal guardian spirit. Plotinus wants to interpret Plato, and aims to integrate Plato's various statements about daimones into one comprehensive theory. This leads to some views that are, if not exotic, then at least strange on first encounter. However, a closer reading reveals that Plotinus is not interested in demonology per se. Instead, the central concern of the treatise are ideas about the soul, the self, and self-consciousness. Plotinus' explorations produce a theory of the mind as the agent and activity responsible for a person's ethical choices and conduct of life. The demon emerges as a philosophical tool passed down from Plato, but adapted and rationalized to try to explain motivation to action, the impulse toward the ethical life, and even the various differences in human ethical and psychological constitution. This innovative theory is a response to a strong and ongoing current of thought in the philosophical tradition. The introduction offers an overview of ancient demonologies, starting with Homer and the Presocratics, and is followed by an in-depth examination of Plato, the Stoics, Plotinus, and later Neoplatonic developments. As such the book presents Plotinus' specific rationalizing response to the idea of a guardian spirit in the context of ancient philosophical demonologies.

Автор: Hyman, John
Название: Action, Knowledge, and Will
ISBN: 0198735774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198735779
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: John Hyman explores central problems in philosophy of action and the theory of knowledge, and connects these areas of enquiry in a new way. His approach to the dimensions of human action culminates in an original analysis of the relation between knowledge and rational behaviour, which provides the foundation for a new theory of knowledge itself.

Название: William of Ockham: Questions on Virtue, Goodness, and the Will
ISBN: 1108735770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108735773
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: William of Ockham (d. 1347) was among the most influential and the most notorious thinkers of the late Middle Ages. In the twenty-seven questions translated in this volume, most never before published in English, he considers a host of theological and philosophical issues, including the nature of virtue and vice, the relationship between the intellect and the will, the scope of human freedom, the possibility of God's creating a better world, the role of love and hatred in practical reasoning, whether God could command someone to do wrong, and more. In answering these questions, Ockham critically engages with the ethical thought of such predecessors as Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and John Duns Scotus. Students and scholars of both philosophy and historical theology will appreciate the accessible translations and ample explanatory notes on the text.

Автор: Setiya Kieran
Название: Knowing Right from Wrong
ISBN: 0198709617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198709619
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? Can it be anything but luck when our beliefs are true? Kieran Setiya confronts these questions in their most compelling and articulate forms, and argues that if there is objective ethical knowledge, human nature is its source.

Автор: Pojman, Louis P. Fieser, James
Название: Ethics
ISBN: 1305584554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781305584556
Издательство: Cengage Learning
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Описание: ETHICS: DISCOVERING RIGHT AND WRONG, 8E is a conversational and non-dogmatic overview of ethical theory. Written by one of contemporary philosophy's top teachers and revised by a best selling author, this textbook even-handedly raises important ethical questions and challenges students to develop their own moral theories by applying them. This revision also presents an even broader presentation of various positions, featuring more feminist and multicultural perspectives as well. ETHICS: DISCOVERING RIGHT AND WRONG, 8E begins with easy to read chapters that introduce questions of meta-ethics and major moral theories. Later chapters address special topics in personal and religious ethics as well as the most recent developments in moral theory, including a new chapter on Biology and Ethics. Study questions for each chapter, along with useful bibliographies, make grasping the material more accessible than ever.

Автор: W.H. Shaw
Название: Moore on Right and Wrong
ISBN: 0792332237 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792332237
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: A critical reconstruction and exposition of G.E. Moore`s indirect, sophisticated, and non-hedonistic form of utilitarianism - a neglected side of his ethical thought. The book places his normative ethics with respect to traditional utilitarianism, and assesses his case for consequentialism.