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Humean Moral Pluralism
Michael B. Gill
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Description for Humean Moral Pluralism
Hardcover. Michael B. Gill offers a new account of Humean moral pluralism: the view that there are different moral reasons for action, which are based on human sentiments. He explores its historical origins, and argues that it offers the most compelling view of our moral experience. Together, pluralism and Humeanism make a philosophically powerful couple. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD1; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 534.
Michael B. Gill offers an original account of Humean moral pluralism. Moral pluralism is the view that there are different ultimate moral reasons for action, that those different reasons can sometimes come into conflict with each other, and that there exist no invariable ordering principles that tell us how to resolve such conflicts. If moral pluralism is true, we will at times have to act on moral decisions for which we can give no fully principled justification. Humeanism is the view that our moral judgments are based on our sentiments, that reason alone could not have given rise to our ... Read more
Michael B. Gill offers an original account of Humean moral pluralism. Moral pluralism is the view that there are different ultimate moral reasons for action, that those different reasons can sometimes come into conflict with each other, and that there exist no invariable ordering principles that tell us how to resolve such conflicts. If moral pluralism is true, we will at times have to act on moral decisions for which we can give no fully principled justification. Humeanism is the view that our moral judgments are based on our sentiments, that reason alone could not have given rise to our ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198714033
SKU
V9780198714033
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About Michael B. Gill
Michael B. Gill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He has published articles on the history of ethics, contemporary meta-ethics, and medical ethics, and he is the author of The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics (CUP, 2006).
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