Platonistic and disenchanting theories of ethics [electronic resource] / Hugh S. Chandler.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : P. Lang, c2007.Description: ix, 283 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 170/.42 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1251 .C472 2007eb
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Contents:
Disenchanted ethics -- Introduction to disenchantment theory -- Utility theory -- Pleasure and pain -- Brutes and hobbots -- Rational decision making -- 'One shot' PD -- Iterated PD -- Hobbot rationality -- General comments on disenchanting theories -- Platonistic and reductive realists -- Trees and brutes -- Accountability and goodness -- Knaves or fools -- The pirate -- Reductive realism -- Superfluous explanation -- Moral zombies -- Epistemic problems.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disenchanted ethics -- Introduction to disenchantment theory -- Utility theory -- Pleasure and pain -- Brutes and hobbots -- Rational decision making -- 'One shot' PD -- Iterated PD -- Hobbot rationality -- General comments on disenchanting theories -- Platonistic and reductive realists -- Trees and brutes -- Accountability and goodness -- Knaves or fools -- The pirate -- Reductive realism -- Superfluous explanation -- Moral zombies -- Epistemic problems.

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