On what matters : Volume Two. Edited and introduced by Samuel Scheffler

Parfit, Derek A., 1942-

Published by Oxford ;: Oxford University Press, 2011

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very good dust-jacket, very good immense black cloth, probably unused, slight tilt from shelving, glued and rather stiff binding with narrow inner margin. PARFIT, DEREK A. On what matters : Volume Two. Edited and introduced by Samuel Scheffler. Oxford ;: Oxford University Press, 2011, later printing number line starting with 3, xiii, 825pp., . ONLY VOUME TWO, stands alone - Series: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures CONTENTS: Part 4: Commentaries. Hiking the range / Susan Wolf ; Humanity as an end in itself / Allen Wood ; A mismatch of methods / Barbara Herman ; How I am not a Kantian / T.M. Scanlon -- Part 5: Responses. On hiking the range ; On humanity as an end in itself ; On a mismatch of methods ; How the numbers count ; Scanlonian contractualism ; The triple theory -- Part 6: Normativity. Analytical naturalism and subjectivism ; Non-analytical naturalism ; The triviality objection ; Naturalism and nihilism ; Non-cognitivism and quasi-realism ; Normativity and truth ; Normative truths ; Metaphysics ; Epistemology ; Rationalism ; Agreement ; Nietzsche -- Appendices. Why anything? Why this? ; The fair warning view ; Some of Kant's arguments for his formula of universal law ; Kant's claims about the good ; Autonomy and categorical imperatives ; Kant's motivational argument ; On what there is. ISBN 9780199572816.

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• Title: On what matters : Volume Two. Edited and introduced by Samuel Scheffler
• Publisher: Oxford ;: Oxford University Press, 2011
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included