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- About this book
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This book shows how a sophisticated version of pragmatism, resting on a novel conception of rationality, can justify a range of important practices, including our practices of moral and epistemic evaluation, as well as our practice of making judgments regarding free will and moral responsibility.
- About the authors
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JEREMY RANDEL KOONS is Visiting Associate Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He has held teaching positions at the American University of Beirut, the University of Hong Kong, and Stonehill College (Massachusetts). He has also published several articles in ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-9
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Pragmatism, Causal Explanation, and Normative Facts
Pages 13-45
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Pragmatism and Rationality
Pages 46-91
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Pragmatism, Normativity, and Relativism
Pages 92-118
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Pragmatism, Interests, and Morality
Pages 121-151
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Pragmatic Reasons
- Book Subtitle
- A Defense of Morality and Epistemology
- Authors
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- J. Koons
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-23957-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230239579
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-57696-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 292
- Topics