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In Selected Essays Michael Slote collects some of the most
important papers of his career, articles that were both influential
as well as those that remain relevant to philosophical debates
today. The papers range over a number of important topics--not all
of them within or having to do with ethics. Three of the papers
have to do with ways in which one might fill out or expand upon
traditional utilitarian views--while remaining within the
utilitarian tradition. Two of the papers focus on free will, and
another pair discuss rational choice and argue that traditional
views about individual rationality unduly limit our possibilities.
The papers outside ethics deal with such topics as counterfactuals;
Wittgensteinian accounts of "cluster terms;" some familiar concepts
we use that cannot apply to reality; and a paradox about the
possibility of circumstances where it is linguistically
inappropriate to assert what one believes. In addition to the
previously published essays, Slote includes more recent and
unpublished papers that deal with the uses of empathy in the
context of global issues of justice; the limitations of the "moral
reasoning" model of normal moral thinking; and the relevance of
empathy to the epistemic ideal of objectivity. The final paper of
the volume speaks about recent developments in ethical theory and
what they may tell us about the possibilities of future progress or
lack of progress in that field.
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