This Is Ethics : (Record no. 32433)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781118479810 |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781118479407 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)1347025378 |
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| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| Classification number | BJ1005 .S855 2014 |
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| Classification number | 170 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Suikkanen, Jussi. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | This Is Ethics : |
| Remainder of title | An Introduction. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Newark : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2014. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (329 pages) |
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| Content type term | text |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | New York Academy of Sciences Series |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Cover -- This Is Philosophy -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: What's in Our Interests? -- 1: Pleasure -- Three Questions about Pleasure -- What Is Pleasure? -- The sensation view -- The attitude view -- The desire view -- Physiology of pleasure* -- Value of Pleasure -- Hedonism -- Pluralism about prudential value -- Pessimism about the value of pleasure* -- Summary and Questions -- Annotated Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 2: Happiness, Well-Being, and the Meaning of Life -- Hedonism, Again -- Objection 1: Trivial pleasures -- Objection 2: The role of happiness in deliberation -- Satisfaction Theories -- Desire satisfaction theories of well-being -- Objections to desire satisfaction theories -- Life satisfaction theories of happiness -- An objection to life satisfaction theories -- Objective List Theories -- Objections to the objective list theories -- The Capability Approach* -- Happiness and the Meaning of Life -- Emotional state theory of happiness* -- The question of the meaning of life -- Susan Wolf's fitting fulfillment theory -- Summary and Questions -- Annotated Bibliography -- Online Resources -- Part Two: Normative Ethics -- 3: Egoism and Altruism -- Different Forms of Egoism and Altruism -- Feldman's objection to ethical egoism -- Two Arguments for Ethical Egoism -- The "ought implies can" argument -- The practical reasons argument -- Two Objections to Psychological Egoism -- The everyday objection -- The evolutionary objection -- Moore's Argument against Ethical Egoism* -- Problems of Moore's argument* -- Gauthier's Contractarianism -- The paradox of social cooperation -- Contractarianism as a solution -- The compliance problem -- Summary -- Problems with Gauthier's Theory -- Objection 1: Scope of moral concern -- Objection 2: Deception. |
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| Formatted contents note | Objection 3: Acting for right reasons -- Summary and Questions -- Annotated Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 4: Consequentialism and Kantian Ethics -- Consequentialism -- Utilitarianism -- Deliberation procedure vs. criterion of rightness -- Direct vs. indirect forms of consequentialism -- Utilitarianism vs. richer conceptions of value -- Actual vs. expected value -- Maximizing vs. satisficing -- Mill's Argument for Utilitarianism -- The problems with Mill's argument -- Saving Mill's argument -- Kantian Ethics -- The good will -- The universalization test -- Duties, right and wrong -- Why do the right thing? -- Counterexamples and Convergence -- Counterexamples to utilitarianism -- Counterexamples to the Categorical Imperative -- Utilitarian and consequentialist responses to the counterexamples* -- Kantian responses to the counterexamples* -- Convergence* -- Summary and Questions -- Annotated Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 5: Intuitionism, Particularism, and Virtue Ethics -- Ross's Objection to Consequentialism and Kantian Ethics -- Intuitionism in Normative Ethics -- Prima facie duties -- How do you know? -- Prima facie duties and actual duties -- Particularism -- Prima facie duties and holism -- Holism and particularism* -- Knowing what is right* -- Virtue Ethics -- Flourishing -- Virtue acquisition -- Acting virtuously -- Right and wrong acts -- Two Objections to Virtue Ethics -- Circularity -- Improving yourself -- Virtue ethics and moral sensibility -- Summary and Questions -- Annotated Bibliography -- Online Resources -- Part Three: Metaethics -- 6: Subjectivism, Relativism, and Divine Commands -- Subjectivism -- Advantages of subjectivism -- Objections to subjectivism -- Relativism -- Advantages of relativism -- Problems of relativism -- Divine Command Theory -- Divine command theory and moral words. |
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| Formatted contents note | Divine command theory and moral properties -- Advantages of divine command theory -- The Euthyphro Dilemma* -- What is right explains what God commands* -- God's commands explain what is right* -- Summary and Questions -- Annotated Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 7: Naturalism and the Open Question Argument -- Moral Realism -- Naturalism vs. non-naturalism -- Pros and cons of non-naturalism -- The Open Question Argument -- Stage 1: Words and properties -- Stage 2: Moral words and moral properties -- Stage 3: The open question test -- Stage 4: Moral words and open questions -- Stage 5: Putting the argument together -- Responses to the Open Question Argument -- Response 1: Begging the question -- Response 2: Making know-how explicit -- Response 3: The sense/reference distinction -- Intuitionism in Metaethics* -- The problem of knowledge* -- Foundationalism to the rescue* -- Misconceptions and objections* -- Summary and Questions -- Annotated Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 8: Moral Motivation and Expressivism -- The Argument from Motivation -- The Humean Theory of Motivation -- Directions of fit -- The role of beliefs and desires -- Moral Judgment Internalism -- Very Strong Internalism -- Weakness of will -- Strong Internalism -- Counterexamples to Strong Internalism -- Amoralists -- Bad people -- A case of depression -- Expressivism -- The core claims of expressivism -- Responses to two common objections -- The Frege-Geach Problem -- Embedded claims -- Valid inferences* -- The negation problem* -- Summary and Questions -- Annotated Bibliography -- Online Resources -- Part Four: Ethical Questions -- 9: Moral Responsibility -- What Is Moral Responsibility? -- Causal responsibility and attributability -- The agency condition -- Freedom and real selves -- The Freedom Principle: A Threat for Moral Responsibility -- The consequence argument. |
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| Formatted contents note | The problem of luck -- Galen Strawson's argument against moral responsibility -- The Frankfurt Cases -- Objections and responses* -- The Deep Attributability Principle -- Frankfurt's higher-order desire theory -- The Real Self -- Watson's theory of the real self -- The time-slice problem -- Responsiveness to reasons -- Summary and Questions -- Annotated Bibliography -- Online Resources -- 10: Population Growth and Climate Change -- The Non-Identity Effect -- The Repugnant Conclusion -- The average utility principle -- Critical-level utilitarianism* -- Variable value view and intuitions* -- Climate Change and Personal Obligations -- Carbon offsetting -- Climate Change and Governments -- The discount rate* -- The social action problem -- Climate Change and Uncertainty -- Maximizing expected value* -- Summary and Questions -- Annotated Bibliography -- Online Resources -- Glossary of Terms -- Index -- End User License Agreement. |
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| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
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| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Ethics-Early works to 1800. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
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| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Suikkanen, Jussi |
| Title | This Is Ethics |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2014 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781118479407 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
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| Uniform title | New York Academy of Sciences Series |
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