Author : William Dawson Lamont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0802209114
Value Judgment
William Dawson Lamont
The Value Judgement
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Value Judgement
James Griffin
Author : James Griffin
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191036941
Value Judgement by James Griffin Pdf
James Griffin asks how, and how much, we can improve our ethical standards not lift our behaviour closer to our standards but refine the standards themselves. To give an answer to this question it is necessary to answer most of the questions of ethics. So Value Judgement includes discussion of what a good life is like, where the boundaries of the `natural world' come, how values relate to that world, how great human capacitiesthe ones important to ethicsare, and where moral norms come from. Throughout the book the question of what philosophy can contribute to ethics repeatedly arises. Philosophical traditions, such as most forms of utilitarianism and deontology and virtue ethics, are, Griffin contends, too ambitious. Ethics cannot be what philosophers in those traditions expect it to be because agents cannot be what their philosophies need them to be. This clear, compelling, and original account of ethics will be of interest to anyone concerned with thinking about values: not only philosophers but legal, political, and economic theorists as well. L
The Value Judgement
William D. Lamont
Author : William D. Lamont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1106820411
The Value Judgement by William D. Lamont Pdf
Value Judgement
James Griffin
Author : James Griffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198752318
Value Judgement by James Griffin Pdf
James Griffin questions how we can improve our ethical judgements and beliefs and suggests how philosophy can answer it. In doing so, he discusses such questions as what a good life is like and how values relate to the world.
The Value Judgement
W. D. Lamont
Author : W. D. Lamont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758112475
The Value Judgement by W. D. Lamont Pdf
Value Judgment
William Dawson Lamont
Author : William Dawson Lamont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0802209114
Value Judgment by William Dawson Lamont Pdf
Educational Goods
Harry Brighouse,Helen F. Ladd,Susanna Loeb,Adam Swift
Author : Harry Brighouse,Helen F. Ladd,Susanna Loeb,Adam Swift
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226514178
Educational Goods by Harry Brighouse,Helen F. Ladd,Susanna Loeb,Adam Swift Pdf
This book, jointly authored by two distinguished philosophers and two prominent social scientists, has an ambitious aim: to improve decision-making in education policy. First they dive into the goals of education policy and explain the terms "educational goods" and "childhood goods," adding precision and clarity to the discussion of the distributive values that are essential for good decision-making about education. Then they provide a framework for individual decision-makers that enables them to combine values and evidence in the evaluation of educational policy options. Finally they delve into the particular policy issues of school finance, school accountability, and school choice, and they show how decision makers might approach them in the light of this decision-making framework. The authors are not advocated particular policy choices, however. The focus instead is a smart framework that will make it easier for policymakers (and readers) to identify and think through what they disagree with others about.
Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences
Graham Button
Author : Graham Button
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521389526
Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences by Graham Button Pdf
Through its empirical inquiries into the ordered properties of social action, this text demonstrates how ethnomethodology provides a radical respecification of the foundations of the human sciences, an achievement that has often been misunderstood.
Thinking about Feeling
Robert C. Solomon
Author : Robert C. Solomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190288402
Thinking about Feeling by Robert C. Solomon Pdf
Philosophers since Aristotle have explored emotion, and the study of emotion has always been essential to the love of wisdom. In recent years Anglo-American philosophers have rediscovered and placed new emphasis on this very old discipline. The view that emotions are ripe for philosophical analysis has been supported by a considerable number of excellent publications. In this volume, Robert Solomon brings together some of the best Anglo-American philosophers now writing on the philosophy of emotion, with chapters from philosophers who have distinguished themselves in the field of emotion research and have interdisciplinary interests, particularly in the social and biological sciences. The reader will find a lively variety of positions on topics such as the nature of emotion, the category of "emotion," the rationality of emotions, the relationship between an emotion and its expression, the relationship between emotion, motivation, and action, the biological nature versus social construction of emotion, the role of the body in emotion, the extent of freedom and our control of emotions, the relationship between emotion and value, and the very nature and warrant of theories of emotion. In addition, this book acknowledges that it is impossible to study the emotions today without engaging with contemporary psychology and the neurosciences, and moreover engages them with zeal. Thus the essays included here should appeal to a broad spectrum of emotion researchers in the various theoretical, experimental, and clinical branches of psychology, in addition to theorists in philosophy, philosophical psychology, moral psychology, and cognitive science, the social sciences, and literary theory.
The Critique of Judgment (Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment & Theory of the Teleological Judgment)
Immanuel Kant
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547805052
The Critique of Judgment (Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment & Theory of the Teleological Judgment) by Immanuel Kant Pdf
The Critique of Judgment, also translated as the Critique of the Power of Judgment and more commonly referred to as the third Critique, is a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant. Critique of Judgment completes the Critical project begun in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason (the first and second Critiques, respectively). The book is divided into two main sections: the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment and the Critique of Teleological Judgment, and also includes a large overview of the entirety of Kant's Critical system, arranged in its final form. The end result of Kant's Critical Project is that there are certain fundamental antinomies in human Reason, most particularly that there is a complete inability to favor on the one hand the argument that all behavior and thought is determined by external causes, and on the other that there is an actual "spontaneous" causal principle at work in human behavior. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher, who, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is "the central figure of modern philosophy." Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our understanding, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is unknowable. Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief that the sun revolved around the earth.
Economics as Applied Ethics
Wilfred Beckerman
Author : Wilfred Beckerman
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 023027837X
Economics as Applied Ethics by Wilfred Beckerman Pdf
The focus of this textbook is on the link between ethics and economic policy analysis. Basic philosophical concepts are systematically described, followed by conventional welfare economic theory and policy, and applications to some topical economic problems such as income distribution and sustainable development.
From Principles to Practice
Onora O'Neill
Author : Onora O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107113756
From Principles to Practice by Onora O'Neill Pdf
Although abstract principles alone cannot guide action, they can be combined to shape good practical judgement and change the world.
Expert Political Judgment
Philip E. Tetlock
Author : Philip E. Tetlock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400888818
Expert Political Judgment by Philip E. Tetlock Pdf
Since its original publication, Expert Political Judgment by New York Times bestselling author Philip Tetlock has established itself as a contemporary classic in the literature on evaluating expert opinion. Tetlock first discusses arguments about whether the world is too complex for people to find the tools to understand political phenomena, let alone predict the future. He evaluates predictions from experts in different fields, comparing them to predictions by well-informed laity or those based on simple extrapolation from current trends. He goes on to analyze which styles of thinking are more successful in forecasting. Classifying thinking styles using Isaiah Berlin's prototypes of the fox and the hedgehog, Tetlock contends that the fox--the thinker who knows many little things, draws from an eclectic array of traditions, and is better able to improvise in response to changing events--is more successful in predicting the future than the hedgehog, who knows one big thing, toils devotedly within one tradition, and imposes formulaic solutions on ill-defined problems. He notes a perversely inverse relationship between the best scientific indicators of good judgement and the qualities that the media most prizes in pundits--the single-minded determination required to prevail in ideological combat. Clearly written and impeccably researched, the book fills a huge void in the literature on evaluating expert opinion. It will appeal across many academic disciplines as well as to corporations seeking to develop standards for judging expert decision-making. Now with a new preface in which Tetlock discusses the latest research in the field, the book explores what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events and looks at why experts are often wrong in their forecasts.
A Defense of Judgment
Michael W. Clune
Author : Michael W. Clune
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226770291
A Defense of Judgment by Michael W. Clune Pdf
Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange, or insightful—and thus, which are more worthy of time and attention than others. Yet the field of literary studies has largely disavowed judgments of artistic value on the grounds that they are inevitably rooted in prejudice or entangled in problems of social status. For several decades now, professors have called their work value-neutral, simply a means for students to gain cultural, political, or historical knowledge. ?Michael W. Clune’s provocative book challenges these objections to judgment and offers a positive account of literary studies as an institution of aesthetic education. It is impossible, Clune argues, to separate judgments about literary value from the practices of interpretation and analysis that constitute any viable model of literary expertise. Clune envisions a progressive politics freed from the strictures of dogmatic equality and enlivened by education in aesthetic judgment, transcending consumer culture and market preferences. Drawing on psychological and philosophical theories of knowledge and perception, Clune advocates for the cultivation of what John Keats called “negative capability,” the capacity to place existing criteria in doubt and to discover new concepts and new values in artworks. Moving from theory to practice, Clune takes up works by Keats, Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Samuel Beckett, and Thomas Bernhard, showing how close reading—the profession’s traditional key skill—harnesses judgment to open new modes of perception.
Noise
Daniel Kahneman,Olivier Sibony,Cass R. Sunstein
Author : Daniel Kahneman,Olivier Sibony,Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780316451383
Noise by Daniel Kahneman,Olivier Sibony,Cass R. Sunstein Pdf
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones—"a tour de force” (New York Times). Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give markedly different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different interviewers at the same firm make different decisions about indistinguishable job applicants—or that when a company is handling customer complaints, the resolution depends on who happens to answer the phone. Now imagine that the same doctor, the same judge, the same interviewer, or the same customer service agent makes different decisions depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday. These are examples of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical. In Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein show the detrimental effects of noise in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, bail, child protection, strategy, performance reviews, and personnel selection. Wherever there is judgment, there is noise. Yet, most of the time, individuals and organizations alike are unaware of it. They neglect noise. With a few simple remedies, people can reduce both noise and bias, and so make far better decisions. Packed with original ideas, and offering the same kinds of research-based insights that made Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nudge groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers, Noise explains how and why humans are so susceptible to noise in judgment—and what we can do about it.