Descriptive ethics : what does moral philosophy know about morality? /: what does moral philosophy know about morality?. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: What does moral philosophy know about morality
• Further Information: Note: Nora Hämäläinen.
• Authors: Hämäläinen, Nora
• Contents: Descriptive Ethics; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction-or What Does Moral Philosophy Know about Morality?; 2 Moral Philosophy Today; 2.1 Everyday Normativity and the Moral Present; Note; 3 Morality as Known by Moral Philosophers; 3.1 Intuition; 3.2 Narrative Literature, Film; 3.3 Moral Histories; 3.4 Experimental and Empirical Ethics; 3.5 Contemporary Examples and Cases; 3.6 The Texture of Our Moral Lives; Notes; 4 The Foundational Project of Ethics and a Different Way of Going Below the Surface; Note; 5 The Challenge from X-phi; Notes; 6 Dewey's Empirical Ethics. 7 Wittgensteinian ApplicationsNotes; 8 Foucault's Archeology and Genealogy of the Self; Notes; 9 Charles Taylor's Affirmation of the Modern Self; 9.1 Taylor on Foucault (Or the Articulation of Value in a Descriptive Ethics); Notes; 10 The "Merely Descriptive" and the "Empirical" Revisited; 11 Descriptive Ethics and the Philosopher; Notes; Literature; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 170; Ethics; PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY -- Social; Ethics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137586179; 1137586176
• Related ISBNs: 9781137586162; 1137586168
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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