The metaphysics of practice : writings on action, community, and obligation /
"Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989) saw the development of his practical philosophy as central to his entire philosophical enterprise—the linchpin to situating the framework of persons within a scientific worldview. The core idea in Sellars's moral writings is that the moral “ought” is to be unde...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989) saw the development of his practical philosophy as central to his entire philosophical enterprise—the linchpin to situating the framework of persons within a scientific worldview. The core idea in Sellars's moral writings is that the moral “ought” is to be understood as a special kind of intention. Specifically, moral judgments are we-intentions, practical commitments one makes “as one of us” or from the communal point of view. In developing this theory, Sellars articulated sophisticated and powerful answers to questions of moral motivation, the intersubjectivity of moral judgments, the nature of moral community, the relation between the normative and the natural, and much more. The Metaphysics of Practice gathers together for the first time Sellars's published writings in moral philosophy, along with previously unpublished manuscripts and significant correspondence between Sellars and such interlocutors as R. M. Hare, Bruce Aune, and Hector-Neri Castañeda. Additionally, there is a substantive editors' introduction which lays out the essentials of Sellars's theory and summarizes the basic arguments of each chapter of the volume. This volume will be of great value not only to Sellars scholars but also to philosophers working in metaethics (particularly ethical expressivism), philosophy of action, and collective intentionality"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (704 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192692252 0192692259 9780192692245 0192692240 9780191957758 0191957755 |