Normativity and the will selected essays on moral psychology and practical reason 1st Edition by Jay Wallace 9780199287499 019928749X

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ISBN 10: 019928749X

ISBN 13: 9780199287499

Author: R. Jay Wallace

Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working in these areas. The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and psychological issues in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Part I, Reason, Desire, and the Will, discusses the nexus linking normativity to motivation, including the relations between desire and reasons, the role of normative considerations in explanations of action, and the normative commitments involved in willing an end (such as the requirement to adopt the necessary means). Part II, Responsibility, Identification, and Emotion, looks at questions about the rational capacities presupposed by accountable agency and the psychic factors that both inhibit and enable identification with what we do. It includes an interpretation of the Nietzschean claim that ressentiment is among the sources of modern moral consciousness. Part III, Morality and Other Normative Domains, addresses the structure of moral reasons and moral motivation, and the relations between moral demands and other normative domains (including especially the requirements of living a meaningful human life). Wallace’s treatments of these topics are at once sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason. The book articulates and defends a unified framework for thinking about those issues, while offering sustained critical discussions of other influential approaches (by philosophers such as Korsgaard, McDowell, Nietzsche, Raz, Scanlon, and Williams). It should be of interest to every serious student of moral philosophy.

Table of contents:

I. REASON, DESIRE, AND THE WILL

1. How to Argue about Practical Reason

2. Three Conceptions of Rational Agency

3. Explanation, Deliberation, and Reasons

4. Normativity and the Will

5. Normativity, Commitment, and Instrumental Reason

II. RESPONSIBILITY, IDENTIFICATION, AND EMOTION

6. Reason and Responsibility

7. Moral Responsibility and the Practical Point of View

8. Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some Philosophical Reflections

9. Caring, Reflexivity, and the Structure of Volition

10. Ressentiment, Value, and Self-Vindication: Making Sense of Nietzsche’s Slave Revolt

III. MORALITY AND OTHER NORMATIVE DOMAINS

11. Virtue, Reason, and Principle

12. Scanlon’s Contractualism

13. The Rightness of Acts and the Goodness of Lives

14. Moral Reasons and Moral Fetishes: Rationalists and Anti-Rationalists on Moral Motivation

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