Mind, Morality, and Explanation: Selected Collaborations

by Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, Michael Smith

Overview

Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith have been at the forefront of philosophy in Australia for much of the last two decades, and their collaborative work has had widespread influence throughout the world. Mind, Morality, and Explanation collects the best of that work in a single volume, showcasing their seminal contributions to philosophical psychology, the theory of psychological and social explanation, moral theory, and moral psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199253371
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/15/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Australian National University, Canberra

Princeton University

Australian National University, Canberra

Table of Contents

I. Philosophical Psychology1. In Defence of Folk Psychology, Jackson and Pettit2. Folk Belief and Commonplace Belief, Jackson and Pettit3. Causation in the Philosophy of Mind, Jackson and Pettit4. Some Content is Narrow, Jackson and PettitII. Psychology and Social Explanation5. Functionalism and Broad Content, Jackson and Pettit6. Program Explanation: A General Perspective, Jackson and Pettit7. Structural Explanation in Social Theory, Jackson and Pettit8. In Defence of Explanatory Ecumenism, Jackson and PettitIII. Moral Theory9. Moral Functionalism and Moral Motivation, Jackson and Pettit10. Ethical Particularism and Patterns, Jackson, Pettit, and Smith11. Minimalism and Truth-Aptness, Jackson, Graham Oppy, and Smith12. A Problem for Expressivism, Jackson and PettitIV. Moral Psychology13. Backgrounding Desire, Pettit and Smith14. Parfit's P, Pettit and Smith15. Practical Unreason, Pettit and Smith16. Brandt on Self-Control, Pettit and Smith17. Freedom in Belief and Desire, Pettit and Smith