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Wise Choices, Apt Feelings

A Theory of Normative Judgment

  • Hardback
  • 358 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

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'Choices can be wise or foolish, and feelings can be apt or off the mark.' Since this is how we judge, it would be good to know what content these normative judgements carry. Gibbard offers an answer, and elaborates it. His theory explores what is at issue in narrowly moral questions, and in questions of rational thought and conduct in general. It helps to explain why normative thought and talk so pervade human life, and why our highly social species might have evolved to be gripped by these questions. Gibbard asks how, if his theory is right, we can interpret our normative puzzles, and thus proceed toward finding answers to them. What claims to objectivity could we make for these answers, if once we had them? Gibbard maintains that normative philosophical inquiry is a refinement of a central human activity: working out in discussion how to live, and how to feel about things in our lives and in the lives of others. Not available from OUP in the USA, Canada or the Phillippines.
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  • Author

    Allan Gibbard

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    May 1990

  • Weight

    681g

  • Page Count

    358

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198249856

  • ISBN-10

    0198249853

  • Eden Code

    4562945

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