Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy: Volume 3

This third volume of Lewis's papers is devoted to his work in ethics and social philosophy.

David Lewis (Author)

9780521582490, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 October 1999

268 pages, 1 b/w illus.
22.4 x 14.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.469 kg

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.

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).

Subject Areas: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ]