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No Morality, No Self: Anscombe’s Radical Skepticism

✍ Scribed by James Doyle

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2018
Tongue
English
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256
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✦ Synopsis

Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” and “The First Person” have become touchstones of analytic philosophy but their significance remains controversial or misunderstood. James Doyle offers a fresh interpretation of Anscombe’s theses about ethical reasoning and individual identity that reconciles seemingly incompatible points of view.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
PART ONE: No Morality: “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958)
1. Virtue Ethics, Eudaimonism, and the Greeks
2. The Invention of “ Morality” and the Possibility of Consequentialism
3. The Misguided Project of Vindicating Morality
4. The Futility of Seeking the Extension of a Word with No Intension
5. What’s Really Wrong with the Vocabulary of Morality?
6. Assessing “Modern Moral Philosophy”
PART TWO: No Self: “The First Person” (1975)
7. The Circularity Problem for Accounts of “I” as a Device of Self-Reference
8. Is the Fundamental Reference Rule for “I” the Key to Explaining First-Person Self-Reference?
9. Rumfitt’s Solution to the Circularity Problem
10. Can We Make Sense of a Nonreferential Account of “I”?
11. Strategies for Saving “I” as a Singular Term: Domesticating FP and Deflating Reference
Epilogue: The Anti-Cartesian Basis of Anscombe’s Skepticism
APPENDIX A. Aquinas and Natural Law
APPENDIX B. Stoic Ethics: A Law Conception without Commandments?
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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