Value and context : the nature of moral and political knowledge / Alan Thomas.

Author/creator Thomas, Alan
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Descriptionviii, 347 pages ; 24 cm
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Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Ethics.
Political science--Philosophy.

Contents Part I : Moral knowledge and moral reasons -- The problem of moral knowledge -- The case for cognitivism -- Values, norms, and the practical -- Internal reasons and contractualist impartiality -- Part II : Norm-expressivism and non-objectivism -- A critique of expressivism -- Non-objectivism and internal realism -- Part III : Contextualist moral justification -- Epistemological contextualism -- A contextual model of moral justification -- Tradition based moral enquiry -- Moral belief and the possibility of error -- Part IV : Contextualism in political philosophy -- Political liberalism and contextualism -- Political liberalism and civic Republicanism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [323]-339) and index.
Other formsAlso available on the Internet to subscribing institutions.
LCCN 2006017202
ISBN0198250177 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780198250173

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks BJ1012 .T53 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold