Experience and Conduct: A Philosophical Enquiry Into Practical ThinkingCUP Archive, 1980 M09 4 - 280 pages First published in 1976, this is a comprehensive study of practical thinking. Professor Körner shows the complex relations which a person's practical attitudes bear to each other, and shows in particular how their moral or prudential character depends not only on their content and form but also on their place in the system constituted by them. There are detailed accounts of the concepts of morality, prudence, justice, welfare and legality, as well as the logical foundations, epistemology and metaphysics of practical thinking. The book is intended for philosophers and for those political theorists and social scientists who are concerned with the philosophical presuppositions and implications of their enquiries. The book is deliberately organized so that those with less interest in the logical issues dealt with in Part I can proceed quickly and easily to the more substantive issues in Parts II and III. |
Contents
Introduction The place and plan of the enquiry | 1 |
ON THE FORMAL STRUCTURE OF PRACTICAL THINKING | 11 |
The logical foundations of practical thinking | 13 |
On the formal structure of ontological and | 25 |
On the formal structure of probabilistic thinking | 39 |
On the formal structure of thinking about practical | 51 |
ASPECTS AND KINDS OF PRACTICAL EVALUATION | 63 |
On chosen interventions in the course of nature | 65 |
On the relation between evaluative and regulative | 126 |
Morality | 137 |
Justice | 149 |
Prudence and welfare | 163 |
Morality prudence and legality | 177 |
On pragmatic and practical idealizations | 190 |
ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS OF PRACTICAL THINKING | 205 |
On the relation between cognitive and practical rationality | 207 |
Agents and their actions | 76 |
their objects and levels | 88 |
On some common characterizations of actions and agents | 101 |
Principles of practical evaluation | 112 |
On argument and evidence in morals | 221 |
On the analysis of moral systems as a topic for speculation | 249 |
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Experience and Conduct: A Philosophical Enquiry into Practical Thinking Stephan Körner No preview available - 1976 |
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