Meaning and Morality: Essays on the Philosophy of Julius Kovesi

✍ Scribed by Alan Tapper, T. Brian Mooney

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 235
Series: Studies in Moral Philosophy 3
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Julius Kovesi's Moral Notions (1967) was a startlingly original contribution to moral philosophy and theory of meaning. After initial positive reviews Kovesi's book was largely forgotten. Nevertheless, it continued to have an enduring influence on a number of philosophers and theologians some of whom have contributed to this volume. The original essays collected here critique, analyze, deepen and extend the work of Kovesi. The book will be of particular interest to moral philosophers and those working on concept formation, while also having a broader appeal to social scientists grappling with the description/evaluation problem.

✦ Table of Contents

Alan Tapper and T. Brian Mooney: Introduction
Anthony Kenny: Prologue: Memories of Julius Kovesi
1 Bernard Harrison: Kovesi’s Refutation of Hume
2 R. E. Ewin: Kovesi’s Moral Point of View
3 T. Brian Mooney, Mark Nowacki and John N. Williams: Kovesi, Connaturality, and the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Virtues
4 Peter A. French: Moral Notions and Originality and Some Examples: Reflections on Kovesi
5 Jean Bethke Elshtain: What’s Morality Got To Do With It? Making the Right Distinctions
6 R. E. Ewin and Alan Tapper: MacIntyre and Kovesi on the Nature of Moral Concepts
7 Dennis Patterson: Kovesi and Legal Reasoning
8 James Doughney: Kovesi and Searle: Thinking in Parallel?
9 Alan Tapper: Kovesi on Natural World Concepts and the Theory of Meaning
10 T. Brian Mooney and Lee Churchman: Kovesi’s Concepts and Plato’s Ideas

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