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Author: T. M. Scanlon (Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Harvard University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 0.80cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.188kg
ISBN: 9780198748106
ISBN 10: 0198748108
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 07 January 2016
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
a powerful and superbly written short book. Barry Maguire, The Times Literary Supplement a much needed challenge to all forms of non-cognitivism. Bruce Russell, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Scanlon delivers new insights and develops new ways of thinking about normative claims. His book thereby introduces engaging ways of discussing normative theory that should be further developed and brought to bear on actual discussions. As such Being Realistic about Reasons shows us an independent thinker outlining his current thinking about normative claims. His book is a challenge to all non-cognitivist theories of moral thinking and proponents who try to interpret moral terms in naturalistic terms such as water and the likes. Hopefully it will be taken on. Metapsychology Reviews Online T. M. Scanlon is a towering figure in moral and political philosophy ... Throughout, this new book reveals the impressive creative intelligence that always characterizes Scanlon's work. It is an important work, which all metaethicists will have to come to grips with, since it defends a distinctive position about these central metaethical questions. Ralph Wedgwood, The Philosophical Quarterly
a powerful and superbly written short book. Barry Maguire, The Times Literary Supplement a much needed challenge to all forms of non-cognitivism. Bruce Russell, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Scanlon delivers new insights and develops new ways of thinking about normative claims. His book thereby introduces engaging ways of discussing normative theory that should be further developed and brought to bear on actual discussions. As such Being Realistic about Reasons shows us an independent thinker outlining his current thinking about normative claims. His book is a challenge to all non-cognitivist theories of moral thinking and proponents who try to interpret moral terms in naturalistic terms such as water and the likes. Hopefully it will be taken on. Metapsychology Reviews Online
Author Information
T. M. Scanlon received a BA from Princeton in 1962 and a PhD from Harvard in 1968, in between studying for a year at Brasenose College, Oxford. He taught at Princeton from 1966 until 1984, and at Harvard since that time. Scanlon is the author of many articles in moral and political philosophy, and of three books: What We Owe to Each Other (Harvard University Press, 1998), The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy (CUP, 2003), and Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame (Harvard University Press, 2008).
