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More Deviant Logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Jonathan Harrison
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham

Extract

Professor Körner's Experience and Conduct, like many other notable entities, is divided into three parts. Part I contains accounts of what Körner calls factual and constructive logic, some remarks on the logic of maxims and their consistency and adequacy, a chapter on probabilistic thinking, and another on preference theory. Part II contains chapters on the logic of action, on attitudes, upon the distinction between regulative and evaluative standards of conduct, on morality, justice, welfare, prudence, legality, and what Körner calls ‘idealizations’. Part III, on the epistemology and metaphysics of practical thinking, contains chapters on rationality, evidence, moral pluralism and a final chapter on moral guidance. The amount of guidance one gets from this last chapter is, as one might expect, small.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1978

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References

1 Körner, Stephan, Experience and Conduct (Cambridge University Press, 1976), pp. ix + 268, £8.50.Google Scholar