Essays Moral And Metaphysical
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Author | : James Stacey Taylor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199751137 |
The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death brings together original essays that both address the fundamental questions of the metaphysics of death and explore the relationship between those questions and some of the areas of applied ethics in which they play a central role.
Author | : John Jamieson Carswell Smart |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1987-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780631150435 |
Author | : Michael S. Moore |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 635 |
Release | : 2010-07-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199599513 |
The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. What precisely is the connection between the concept of causation used in attributing responsibility and the accounts of causal relations offered in the philosophy of science and metaphysics? How much of what we call causal responsibility is in truth defined by non-causal factors? This book argues that much of thelegal doctrine on these questions is confused and incoherent, and offers the first comprehensive attempt since Hart and Honoré to clarify the philosophical background to the legal and moral debates.The book first sets out the place of causation in criminal and tort law and outlines the metaphysics presupposed by the legal doctrine. It then analyses the best theoretical accounts of causation in the philosophy of science and metaphysics, and using these accounts criticises many of the core legal concepts surrounding causation - such as intervening causation, forseeability of harm and complicity. It considers and rejects the radical proposals to eliminate the notion of causation from law byusing risk analysis to attribute responsibility. The result of the analysis is a powerful argument for revising our understanding of the role played by causation in the attribution of legal and moral responsibility.
Author | : Judith Jarvis Thomson |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780262024983 |
A diverse collection of essays, which reflect the breadth of Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical work. The diversity of topics discussed in this book reflects the breadth of Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical work. Throughout her long career at MIT, Thomson's straightforward approach and emphasis on problem-solving have shaped philosophy in significant ways. Some of the book's contributions discuss specific moral and political issues such as abortion, self-defense, the rights and obligations of prospective fathers, and political campaign finance. Other contributions concern the foundations of moral theory, focusing on hedonism, virtue ethics, the nature of nonconsequentialism, and the objectivity of moral claims. Finally, contributions in metaphysics and epistemology discuss the existence of sets, the structures reflected in conditional statements, and the commitments of testimony. Contributors Jonathan Bennett, Richard L. Cartwright, Joshua Cohen, N. Ann Davis, Catherine Z. Elgin, Gilbert Harman, Barbara Herman, Frances Myrna Kamm, Claudia Mills, T.M. Scanlon, Ernest Sosa
Author | : Timothy L. S. Sprigge |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2011-01-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism in the last fifty years. The idealist worldview, long unfashionable, has been coming back into favour, and Sprigge's work has found a new readership. These selected essays focus on the view of consciousness on which his unique system of metaphysics and ethics is based.
Author | : Mark Timmons |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019825010X |
Kant's last major works on ethics, The Metaphysics of Morals has become a focus of recent scholarship. This volume draws together a selection of the most interesting current work by leading scholars.
Author | : Sarah Broadie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-07-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107405851 |
Written over a period of thirty-five years, these essays explore the topics of causation, time, fate, determinism, natural teleology, different conceptions of the human soul, the idea of the highest good and the human significance of leisure. While most of the essays take as their starting-point some theme in Ancient Greek philosophy, they are meant not as exegesis but as distinctive and independent contributions to live philosophizing. Written with clarity, precision without technicality, and philosophical imagination, they will engage a wide range of readers, including scholars and students of Ancient Greek philosophy and others working on more contemporary analytical concerns.
Author | : Lara Denis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2010-10-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139492632 |
Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (1797), containing the Doctrine of Right and Doctrine of Virtue, is his final major work of practical philosophy. Its focus is not rational beings in general but human beings in particular, and it presupposes and deepens Kant's earlier accounts of morality, freedom and moral psychology. In this volume of newly-commissioned essays, a distinguished team of contributors explores the Metaphysics of Morals in relation to Kant's earlier works, as well as examining themes which emerge from the text itself. Topics include the relation between right and virtue, property, punishment, and moral feeling. Their diversity of questions, perspectives and approaches will provide new insights into the work for scholars in Kant's moral and political theory.
Author | : Abraham Joshua Heschel |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1997-05-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780374524951 |
Gathers essays by the Jewish scholar, activist, and theologian about Judaism, Jewish heritage, social justice, ecumenism, faith, and prayer.
Author | : Brenda Almond |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2020-07-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000041425 |
In bringing the concepts and methods of philosophy to bear on specific, pressing, practical concerns, applied philosophy is the modern expression of a perennial concern: to understand, in part to control, and to come to terms with the conditions in which human life is to be lived. Originally published in 1991 and written by distinguished philosophers and academics from Europe, the USA and Australia, the essays collected in this volume examine subjects of continued concern and debate, such as the environment, personal relationships, terrorism and medicine. The contributions were originally published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy.