Ethics and the a Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics

by Michael Andrew Smith

Book Overview

Michael Smith has written a series of seminal essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, 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 collection comprises some of the most influential of Smith's essays. Among the topics covered are: the Humean theory of motivating reasons, the nature of normative reasons, Williams...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521007739
• ISBN13: 9780521007733
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"