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Exploring Practical Philosophy: From Action to Values

By: Dan Egonsson,Jonas Josefsson,Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen

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Exploring Practical Philosophy: From Action to Values

By: Dan Egonsson,Jonas Josefsson,Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen

This title was first published in 28/11/2001: The broad label ’practical philosophy’ brings together such topics as ethics and metaethics as well as philosophy of law, society, art and religion. In practical philosophy, theory of value and action is basic, and woven into our understanding of all practical and ethical reasoning. New essays from leading international philosophers illustrate that substantial results in the subdisciplines of practical philosophy require insights into its core issues: the nature of actions, persons, values and reasons. This anthology is published in honour of Ingmar Persson on his fiftieth birthday.

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Preference and Information

By: Dan Egonsson

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Preference and Information

By: Dan Egonsson

Is it important to our quality of life that the preferences we satisfy are rational and well-informed? Standard preferentialist theories allege that a person's preferences and their satisfaction are the correct measure of well-being. In preference-sensitive theories, preferences are important but do not count for everything. This raises the question of whether we ought to make demands on these preferences. In this book Egonsson presents a critical analysis of the 'Full Information Account of the Good', which claims that only the satisfaction of rational and fully informed preferences has value for a person. The problems he deals with include: how is an information requirement to be formulated and shaped? Is it possible to design a requirement that is both neutral to the agent's epistemic situation and reasonable? Is the requirement reasonable? Does it make sense to claim that some are better off if we satisfy the preferences they would have had in some merely hypothetical circumstances? This is an important new book on preference rationality which will be of great interest to academics and students of ethics, quality of life, and rationality.

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1351909193

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Why It's OK to Eat Meat

By: Dan C. Shahar

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Why It's OK to Eat Meat

By: Dan C. Shahar

Vegetarians have argued at great length that meat-eating is wrong. Even so, the vast majority of people continue to eat meat, and even most vegetarians eventually give up on their diets. Does this prove these people must be morally corrupt? In Why It’s OK to Eat Meat, Dan C. Shahar argues the answer is no: it’s entirely possible to be an ethical person while continuing to eat meat—and not just the "fancy" offerings from the farmers' market but also the regular meat we find at most supermarkets and restaurants. Shahar’s examination forcefully echoes vegetarians’ concerns about the meat industry’s impacts on animals, workers, the environment, and public health. However, he shows that the most influential ethical arguments for avoiding meat on the basis of these considerations are ultimately unpersuasive. Instead of insisting we all become vegetarians, Shahar argues each of us has broad latitude to choose which of the world’s problems to tackle, in what ways, and to what extents, and hence people can decline to take up this particular form of activism without doing anything wrong. Key Features First book-length defense of meat-eating written for a popular audience Punchy, accessible introduction to the multifaceted debate over the ethics of eating meat Includes pioneering new examinations of humane labeling practices Shows why appeals to universalized patterns of behavior can’t vindicate vegetarians’ claims that there’s a duty to avoid meat Develops a novel theory of ethical activism with potential applications to a wide range of other issues

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Taylor & Francis

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1000466337

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Preference and Information

By: Dan Egonsson

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Exploring Practical Philosophy: From Action to Values

By: Dan Egonsson,Jonas Josefsson,Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen

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Exploring Practical Philosophy: From Action to Values

Exploring Practical Philosophy: From Action to Values

Preference and Information

Preference and Information

Why It's OK to Eat Meat

Why It's OK to Eat Meat

Preference and Information

Preference and Information

Exploring Practical Philosophy: From Action to Values

Exploring Practical Philosophy: From Action to Values

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