Reconciling Our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics

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Allan Gibbard (Richard Brandt University Professor of Philosophy, Richard Brandt University Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan) Barry Stroud (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley)

Reconciling Our Aims

In Search of Bases for Ethics

Allan Gibbard (Richard Brandt University Professor of Philosophy, Richard Brandt University Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan), Barry Stroud (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley)

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Oxford University Press Inc
07 July 2011

Ethics & moral philosophy

Series: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures

"In these three Tanner lectures, distinguished ethical theorist Allan Gibbard explores the nature of normative thought and the bases of ethics. In the first lecture he explores the role of intuitions in moral thinking and offers a way of thinking about the intuitive method of moral inquiry that both places this activity within the natural world and makes sense of it as an indispensable part of our lives as planners. In the second and third lectures he takes up the kind of substantive ethical inquiry he has described in the first lecture, asking how we might live together on terms that none of us could reasonably reject. Since working at cross purposes loses fruits that might stem from cooperation, he argues, any consistent ethos that meets this test would be, in a crucial way, utilitarian. It would reconcile our individual aims to establish, in Kant's phrase, a ""kingdom of ends."" The volume also contains an introduction by Barry Stroud, the volume editor, critiques by Michael Bratman (Stanford University), John Broome (Oxford University), and F. M. Kamm (Harvard University), and Gibbard's responses."

By: Allan Gibbard (Richard Brandt University Professor of Philosophy Richard Brandt University Professor of Philosophy University of Michigan)
Edited by: Barry Stroud (Professor of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy University of California Berkeley)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 140mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 306g
ISBN: 9780199826728
ISBN 10: 0199826722
Series: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 07 July 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alan Gibbard is Richard Brandt University Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan Barry Stroud is Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

Reviews for Reconciling Our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics

a work of impressive scope for a slim volume. ... Gibbard's own naturalistic picture of the normative is exceptionally rich, and the ways in which he develops it in Reconciling Our Aims are fascinating for anyone interested in the bases of ethics and of normativity in general. Brian McElwee, Journal of Utilitas