Ruling passions
Subtitle: a theory of practical reasoning
By: Simon Blackburn
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780585080291
Subjects: Evolutionary Ethics; Practical reason; Morale évolutive; Raison pratique; PHILOSOPHY; Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Description: Written in a trenchant style, Ruling Passions propounds an original philosophy of human motivation and morality. It uses game theory and cognitive science to illuminate ethics and exposes the pretensions of rival theories.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: Organizing practice: the elements of ethics --; title: A practical subject --; title: Inputs and outputs --; title: Emotional ascent --; title: Guilt, shame, and the rejection of ethics --; title: Privacy and principle --; title: Things that concern us --; title: Virtues, ends, duties --; title: Virtue first? --; title: Duty first? --; title: Explanation and justification --; title: Consequentialism first: one thought too few? --; title: Naturalizing norms --; title: In the beginning was the deed --; title: Prelude: norms and functions --; title: States of mind: Satan and Othello --; title: The ethical proposition and Frege's Abyss --; title: Representation and minimalism --; title: The ethical proposition: what it is not --; title: Dionysus and Apollo --; title: Concepts, rules, and forms of life --; title: Eighteenth-century philosophy of mind? --; title: The cute and the lewd --; title: Response-dependent accounts --; title: Cornell realism --; title: Looking out for yourself --; title: Emotions and decisions --; title: Economic man --; title: The empirical claim: Butler on desire and interest --; title: The self and biology --; title: Self-regarding versus self-referential desire --; title: Ought we to be selfish? --; title: Game theory and rational choice --; title: Utilities, preferences, and choices --; title: Blackmailers and centipedes --; title: The prisoners' dilemma --; title: Toxins, boxes, and reasons --; title: The growth of trust --; title: The good, the right, and the common point of view --; title: Vibrating in sympathy: Hume and Smith --; title: Aristotle's well-being --; title: Kant's dream --; title: Hare's version --; title: The knave again --; title: Self-control, reason, and freedom --; title: Self-control: Hume-friendly reason --; title: The Kantian captain --; title: The fundamental mistake about deliberation.