Hume on Motivation and Virtue [electronic resource] /
Pigden, C.editor.
This collection is devoted to questions in meta-ethics and moral psychology arising from the work of David Hume. The collection focuses on questions arising from Hume's views on reason, motivation and virtue including new essays from notable Hume scholars.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; A Note on References to Hume and Locke; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; 1 Expressivism, Motivation Internalism, and Hume; 2 Is Hume Inconsistent? - Motivation and Morals; 3 If Not Non-Cognitivism, Then What?; 4 The Motivation Argument for Non-Cognitivism; 5 Experiences of Value; 6 Hume and the Debate on 'Motivating Reasons'; 7 Against All Reason? Scepticism about the Instrumental Norm; 8 Why Internalists about Reasons should be Humeans about Motivation; 9 Humean Sources of Normativity; 10 Two Kinds of Normativity: Korsgaard v. Hume
11 What Kind of Virtue Theorist is Hume?12 Kinds of Virtue Theorist: A Response to Christine Swanton; 13 Reply to Baier; 14 Hume on Justice; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection is devoted to questions in meta-ethics and moral psychology arising from the work of David Hume. The collection focuses on questions arising from Hume's views on reason, motivation and virtue including new essays from notable Hume scholars.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Ethics.
Analysis (Philosophy).
Literature.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Analytic Philosophy.
Literature, general.