Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:OUP OxfordISBN-13:9780199594979ISBN-10:019959497XUPC:9780199594979Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Aesthetics, MetaphysicsSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCE1NM6VK1
Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication
Rachel Cohon offers an original interpretation of the moral philosophy of David Hume, focusing on two areas. Firstly, his metaethics. Cohon reinterprets Hume's claim that moral distinctions are not derived from reason and explains why he makes it. She finds that Hume did not actually hold three "Humean" claims: 1) that beliefs alone cannot move us to act, 2) that evaluative propositions cannot be...
Language:EnglishPublisher:OUP OxfordISBN-13:9780199594979ISBN-10:019959497XUPC:9780199594979Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Aesthetics, MetaphysicsSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCE1NM6VK1
Rachel Cohon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the editor of Hume: Moral and Political Philosophy (Dartmouth/Ashgate, 2001) and author of a number of articles about Hume's moral philosophy and about the relation of between morality and reasons, including "Hume on Promises and the Peculiar Act of the Mind," (Journal of the...
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