实在地看理由
托马斯·M.斯坎伦教授是美国著名的伦理学家与政治哲学家,曾任教于普林斯顿大学和哈佛大学。在规范伦理学领域,他是当代契约主义的代表人物,著有《我们彼此亏欠什么》等。在元伦理学领域,他是一个非自然主义实在论者,《实在地看理由》就是完整表述其元伦理学理论的*新力作。《实在地看理由》的核心观点是一种“理由基础主义”,即道德和行动的规范属性是通过实践理由来说明的,而理由真理不能还原为任何关于自然世界的非规范真理。基于这一立场,《实在地看理由》讨论了理由的形式、规范领域的形而上学地位、动机、随附性、理由强度等一系列问题。
T. M. Scanlon received a BA from Princeton in 1962 and a PhD from Harvard in 1968, in between studying for a year at Brasenose College, Oxford. He taught at Princeton from 1966 until 1984, and at Harvard since that time. Scanlon is the author of many articles in moral and political philosophy, and of three books: What We Owe to Each Other (Harvard University Press, 1998), The D...
T. M. Scanlon received a BA from Princeton in 1962 and a PhD from Harvard in 1968, in between studying for a year at Brasenose College, Oxford. He taught at Princeton from 1966 until 1984, and at Harvard since that time. Scanlon is the author of many articles in moral and political philosophy, and of three books: What We Owe to Each Other (Harvard University Press, 1998), The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy (CUP, 2003), and Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame (Harvard University Press, 2008).