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Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Volume 3 David Lewis (Princeton University, New Jersey)

Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Volume 3 By David Lewis (Princeton University, New Jersey)

Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Volume 3 by David Lewis (Princeton University, New Jersey)


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This third volume of Lewis's papers is devoted to his work in ethics and social philosophy. The purpose of this collection, and the two preceding volumes on Logic, and Epistemology and Metaphysics, is to disseminate more widely the work of an eminent and influential contemporary philosopher.

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Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Volume 3 Summary

Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Volume 3 by David Lewis (Princeton University, New Jersey)

This volume is devoted to Lewis's work in ethics and social philosophy. Topics covered include the logic of obligation and permission; decision theory and its relation to the idea that beliefs might play the motivating role of desires; a subjectivist analysis of value; dilemmas in virtue ethics; the problem of evil; problems about self-prediction; social coordination, linguistic and otherwise; alleged duties to rescue distant strangers; toleration as a tacit treaty; nuclear warfare; and punishment. This collection, and the two preceding volumes, will disseminate more widely the work of an eminent and influential contemporary philosopher.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Semantic analyses for dyadic deontic logic; 2. A problem about permission; 3. Reply to McMichael; 4. Why ain'cha rich?; 5. Desire as belief I; 6. Desire as belief II; 7. Dispositional theories of value; 8. The Trap's dilemma; 9. Evil for freedom's sake?; 10. Do we believe in penal substitution?; 11. Convention: reply to Jamieson; 12. Meaning without use: reply to Hawthorne; 13. Illusory innocence?; 14. Mill and Milquetoast; 15. Academic appointments: why ignore the advantage of being right?; 16. Devil's bargains and the real world; 17. Buy like a MADman, use like a NUT; 18. The punishment that leaves something to chance; 19. Scriven on human unpredictability (with Jane S. Richardson).

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CIN0521587867G
9780521587860
0521587867
Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Volume 3 by David Lewis (Princeton University, New Jersey)
Used - Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
1999-10-13
268
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