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Ethics and the A Priori
Over the last fifteen years, Michael Smith has written a series of essays
about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgement,
and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts
we give of our nature as free and responsible agents.
This long-awaited prises some of the most influential of
Smith’s essays. Among the topics covered are: the Humean theory of moti-
vating reasons, the nature of normative reasons, Williams and Korsgaard on
internal and external reasons, the nature of self-control, weakness of will,
compulsion, freedom, responsibility, the analysis of our rational capacities,
moral realism, the dispositional theory of value, the supervenience of the
normative on the non-normative, the error theory, rationalist treatments
of moral judgement, the practicality requirement on moral judgement,
and cognitivist versus non-cognitivist accounts of moral judgement.
Collected for the first time in a single volume, the essays will be of
interest to students in philosophy and psychology.
Michael Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
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cambridge studies in philosophy
General editor ernest sosa (Brown University)
Advisory editors:
jonathan dancy (University of Reading)
john haldane (University of St. Andrews)
gilbert harman (Princeton University)
frank jackson (Australian National University)
william g. lycan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
sydney shoemaker (Cornell University)
judith j. thomson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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