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Value and context : the nature of moral and political knowledge /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Alan
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Online Access:http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/philosophy/0198250177/toc.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006017202.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2006017202-d.html
Table of 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.