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The Origin of Oughtness : a Case for Metaethical Conativism /

How come we ought to do things? Current metanormative debates often suffer from the fact that authors implicitly use adequacy conditions not shared by their opponents. This leads to an unsatisfying dialectical gridlock (Chang): One author accuses her opponents of not being able to account for stuff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fischer, Stefan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
Colección:Practical Philosophy ; volume 22
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Part i: the phenomenon and how to explain it
  • 1 the phenomenon of oughtness
  • 2 the grounds for explaining oughtness
  • 3 two angles and a dialectical dead end
  • Part ii: four theories of oughtness
  • 4 stemmer's humean theory of oughtness
  • 5 halbig's value realism
  • 6 schroeder's hypotheticalism
  • 7 scanlon's reasons fundamentalism
  • 8 why humeanism 'wins'
  • Part iii: constructing conativism
  • 9 a look ahead
  • 10 an anthropological framework for humeanism
  • 11 the argument from favored desires
  • 12 the nature of desiring
  • 13 promoting desires
  • 14 idealization, epistemic error, and autonomy
  • 15 the nature of practical reasons
  • 16 the weight of favorings
  • 17 conativism and the morality angle
  • 18 the origin of oughtness: a recapitulation
  • Bibliography
  • Index.