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.
| ISBN: | 9780521582490 |
| Publication date: | 13th October 1999 |
| Author: | David Princeton University, New Jersey Lewis |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 268 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Genres: |
Ethics and moral philosophy |