Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy
Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy
Volume 3:
David Lewis, Princeton University, New Jersey
February 2011
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This volume is devoted to Lewis's work in ethics and social philosophy. Topics covered include the logic of obligation and permission; decision theory and its relation to the idea that beliefs might play the motivating role of desires; a subjectivist analysis of value; dilemmas in virtue ethics; the problem of evil; problems about self-prediction; social coordination, linguistic and otherwise; alleged duties to rescue distant strangers; toleration as a tacit treaty; nuclear warfare; and punishment. This collection, and the two preceding volumes, will disseminate more widely the work of an eminent and influential contemporary philosopher.
- David Lewis is one of the most influential and widely read of contemporary analytic philosophers
- This third and final volume is less technical than the first or second and will appeal to social scientists
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Semantic analyses for dyadic deontic logic
- 2. A problem about permission
- 3. Reply to McMichael
- 4. Why ain'cha rich?
- 5. Desire as belief I
- 6. Desire as belief II
- 7. Dispositional theories of value
- 8. The Trap's dilemma
- 9. Evil for freedom's sake?
- 10. Do we believe in penal substitution?
- 11. Convention: reply to Jamieson
- 12. Meaning without use: reply to Hawthorne
- 13. Illusory innocence?
- 14. Mill and Milquetoast
- 15. Academic appointments: why ignore the advantage of being right?
- 16. Devil's bargains and the real world
- 17. Buy like a MADman, use like a NUT
- 18. The punishment that leaves something to chance
- 19. Scriven on human unpredictability (with Jane S. Richardson).
