Reasons and Recognition
Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon
1st Edition
Published on 8. September 2011
394 pages
978-0-19-987703-4 (ISBN)
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Reasons and Recognition brings together fourteen new papers on an array of topics from the many areas to which philosopher Thomas Scanlon has made path-breaking contributions, each of which develops a distinctive and independent position while critically engaging with central themes from Scanlon's own work in the area.
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Reasons and Recognition
Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon
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10/2011
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Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Contributors
- PART ONE: REASON, VALUE, AND DESIRE
- 1. The Activity of Reason
- 2. Valuing
- 3. Aims as Reasons
- 4. Scanlon on Desire and the Explanation of Action
- PART TWO: ETHICAL THEMES: CONTRACTUALISM, PROMISSORY OBLIGATION, AND TOLERANCE
- 5. Of Metaethics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism
- 6. Contractualism on the Shoal of Aggregation
- 7. Immoral, Conflicting, and Redundant Promises
- 8. The Trouble with Tolerance
- PART THREE: POLITICAL THEMES: CONSERVATISM, JUSTICE, AND PUBLIC REASON
- 9. Rescuing Conservatism: A Defense of Existing Value
- 10. Global Political Justice and the "Democratic Deficit"
- 11. Establishment, Exclusion, and Democracy's Public Reason
- 12. The Significance of Distribution
- PART FOUR: RESPONSIBILITY
- 13. The Trouble with Psychopaths
- 14. Blame, Italian Style
- 15. Dispassionate Opprobrium: On Blame and the Reactive Sentiments
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
