Judith Jarvis Thomson: 2 books
by Philip Fisher, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential...
by Judith Jarvis Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Judith Jarvis Thomson's Normativity is a study of normative thought. She brings out that normative thought is not restricted to moral thought. Normative judgments divide into two sub-kinds, the evaluative and the directive; but the sub-kinds are larger than is commonly appreciated. Evaluative judgments...