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- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Jonathan Edwards and Eighteenth‐Century Religious Philosophy
- Emerson, Romanticism, and Classical American Pragmatism
- Peirce and Pragmatism: American Connections
- William James
- John Dewey: Inquiry, Ethics, and Democracy
- Josiah Royce: Idealism, Transcendentalism, Pragmatism
- George Santayana: Ordinary Reflection Systematized
- A Pragmatist World View: George Herbert Mead's Philosophy of the Act
- W. E. B. Du Bois: Double‐Consciousness, Jamesian Sympathy, and the Critical Turn
- The Pragmatist Family Romance
- The Reception of Early American Pragmatism
- Whitehead's Metaphysical System
- Thorstein Veblen and American Social Criticism
- Pragmatism and the Cold War
- Pragmatism and the Given: C. I. Lewis, Quine, and Peirce
- W. V. Quine
- Philosophy of Science in America
- The Influence of Wittgenstein on American Philosophy
- Placing in a Space of Norms: Neo‐Sellarsian Philosophy in the Twenty‐first Century
- Rorty, Davidson, and the Future of Metaphysics in America
- Analytic Philosophy in America
- Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics
- Liberal Equality: What, Where, and Why
- Legal Philosophy in America
- American Moral Philosophy
- Essences, Intersections, and American Feminism
- Name Index
- Subjects Index
Abstract and Keywords
The philosophy of language and philosophy of science were dominant from the middle 1930s for the next twenty-five years. During this period, many leading philosophers felt reluctant to venture into normative ethics. It was often said that philosophers have no special expertise in, or insight into, matters of right and wrong. Philosophers could defend views about the nature of moral language and judgement. But if there are no literally true propositions that x is morally required or y is morally wrong, the only moral insight or expertise one could legitimately claim to have is that one has moral attitudes that are based on fuller empirical information or are more consistent.
Keywords: moral philosophy, philosophy of science, normative ethics, moral language, moral judgement, moral attitudes
Brad Hooker has published articles on egoism, the Golden Rule, self-sacrifice, impartiality, utilitarianism, and contractualism. His book Ideal Code, Real World: A Rule-Consequentialist Theory of Morality was published by Oxford University Press in 2000. He has taught at the University of Reading since 1993.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Jonathan Edwards and Eighteenth‐Century Religious Philosophy
- Emerson, Romanticism, and Classical American Pragmatism
- Peirce and Pragmatism: American Connections
- William James
- John Dewey: Inquiry, Ethics, and Democracy
- Josiah Royce: Idealism, Transcendentalism, Pragmatism
- George Santayana: Ordinary Reflection Systematized
- A Pragmatist World View: George Herbert Mead's Philosophy of the Act
- W. E. B. Du Bois: Double‐Consciousness, Jamesian Sympathy, and the Critical Turn
- The Pragmatist Family Romance
- The Reception of Early American Pragmatism
- Whitehead's Metaphysical System
- Thorstein Veblen and American Social Criticism
- Pragmatism and the Cold War
- Pragmatism and the Given: C. I. Lewis, Quine, and Peirce
- W. V. Quine
- Philosophy of Science in America
- The Influence of Wittgenstein on American Philosophy
- Placing in a Space of Norms: Neo‐Sellarsian Philosophy in the Twenty‐first Century
- Rorty, Davidson, and the Future of Metaphysics in America
- Analytic Philosophy in America
- Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics
- Liberal Equality: What, Where, and Why
- Legal Philosophy in America
- American Moral Philosophy
- Essences, Intersections, and American Feminism
- Name Index
- Subjects Index
