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Meaning and morality : essays on the philosophy of Julius Kovesi / edited by Alan Tapper and T. Brian Mooney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in moral philosophy (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 3.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004232556
  • 9004232559
  • 1280995661
  • 9781280995668
  • 9786613767271
  • 6613767271
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Meaning and morality.DDC classification:
  • 170.92 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ977.A8 M33 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Kovesi's Refutation of Hume / Bernard Harrison -- 2. Kovesi's Moral Point of View / R.E. Ewin -- 3. Kovesi, Connaturality, and the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Virtues / John N. Williams -- 4. Moral Notions and Originality and Some Examples: Reflections on Kovesi / Peter A. French -- 5. What's Morality Got To Do With It? Making the Right Distinctions / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 6. MacIntyre and Kovesi on the Nature of Moral Concepts / Alan Tapper -- 7. Kovesi and Legal Reasoning / Dennis Patterson -- 8. Kovesi and Searle: Thinking in Parallel? / James Doughney -- 9. Kovesi on Natural World Concepts and the Theory of Meaning / Alan Tapper -- 10. Kovesi's Concepts and Plato's Ideas / Lee Churchman.
Summary: The essays in this volume address the importance of Kovesi's work on moral philosophy and concept formation. The essays extend Kovesi's insights on moral philosophy into broader areas and compares and contrasts his work with that of key ancient and contemporary thinkers.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)467309

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The essays in this volume address the importance of Kovesi's work on moral philosophy and concept formation. The essays extend Kovesi's insights on moral philosophy into broader areas and compares and contrasts his work with that of key ancient and contemporary thinkers.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Kovesi's Refutation of Hume / Bernard Harrison -- 2. Kovesi's Moral Point of View / R.E. Ewin -- 3. Kovesi, Connaturality, and the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Virtues / John N. Williams -- 4. Moral Notions and Originality and Some Examples: Reflections on Kovesi / Peter A. French -- 5. What's Morality Got To Do With It? Making the Right Distinctions / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 6. MacIntyre and Kovesi on the Nature of Moral Concepts / Alan Tapper -- 7. Kovesi and Legal Reasoning / Dennis Patterson -- 8. Kovesi and Searle: Thinking in Parallel? / James Doughney -- 9. Kovesi on Natural World Concepts and the Theory of Meaning / Alan Tapper -- 10. Kovesi's Concepts and Plato's Ideas / Lee Churchman.

English.