_Good as Usual_ argues that contemporary discussion on the nature of
norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and
mysterious, since they do not fit popular philosophical assumptions
about metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language.
Timothy Williamson shows that, once we throw out those preconceived
and outdated ideas, we can understand moral and evaluative features of
reality as similar to its other features, and capable of being known
and described in similar ways. The result is a new and
anti-reductionist form of moral and evaluative realism and
cognitivism. Williamson applies the same approach to practical
reasoning about what to do, criticizing the subjectivist assumptions
of standard decision theory, showing how the desires as well as the
beliefs on which we act can amount to knowledge, and how connections
between the justification of belief and the justification of action
can benefit epistemology. Light is cast on the nature of rationality
by a sharp distinction between rational beliefs and rational
believers. Subtle logical fallacies about permissibility, obligation,
and reasons are shown to have confused our normative thinking. This
volume brings together and expands all of the author's work on
normativity and value; it can be understood as the application to
practical philosophy of the approach to theoretical philosophy
developed in earlier work.
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Anti-Exceptionalist Essays on Values, Norms, and Action
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ISBN
9780192888884
Publisert
2024
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Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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