This book examines some of the deepest questions in philosophy:
What is involved in judging a belief, action, or feeling to be
rational? What place does morality have in the kind of life it
makes most sense to lead? How are to understand claims to
objectivity in moral judgments and in judgments of rationality?
When we find ourselves in fundamental disagreement with whole
communities, how can we understand out disagreement and cope with
it?
To shed light on such issues, Alan Gibbard develops what he
calls a "norm-expressivstic analysis" of rationality. He refines
this analysis by drawing on evolutionary theory and experimental
psychology, as well as on more traditional moral and political
philosophy. What emrges is an interpretation of human normative
life, with its quandaries and disputes over what is rational and
irrational, morally right and morally wrong. Judgments of what it
makes sense to do, to think, and to feel, Gibbard agrues, are
central to shaping the way we live our lives.
Gibbard does not hesitate to take up a wide variety of possible
difficulties for his analysis. This sensitivity to the true
complexity of the sudject matter gives his treatment a special
richness and depth. The fundamental importance of the issues he
addresses and the freshness and suggestiveness of the account he
puts forward, along with his illuminating treatment of aspects of
sociobiology theory, will ensure this book a warm reception from
philosophers, social scientists, and others with a series interest
in the nature of human thought and action.
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