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OverviewGrounded in American pragmatism, Pragmatist Ethics proposes a rethinking of ethics. Rather than looking to the good—a concept for which consensus is difficult to achieve—pragmatists instead advocate for tending to the problems of the day. James Jakób Liszka examines how daily practices and institutions are originally conceived and then evolve to solve certain problems, and that their failure to do so is the source of most problems. Liszka argues that the ethical goal, therefore, is to improve upon these practices and that the sort of practical reasoning that characterizes practices can be enhanced by a more scientific, empirical approach. But how do we know when changes to practices and institutions are progressive? Problems will plague the best of communities; the better community is the one that succeeds best at solving its problems. Pragmatist Ethics examines various accounts of improvement and progress, concluding that the problem-solving effectiveness of communities is the key to progressive changes. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James Jakób LiszkaPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438485881ISBN 10: 1438485883 Pages: 204 Publication Date: 02 July 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on In-Text Citations Introduction 1. What's the Good of Goodness? Plato's Doubts James's Doubts The Tragic Sense of Life Problem-Based Ethics 2. Pragmatism and the Roots of Problem-Based Ethics The Pragmatic Maxim: Theory to Practice Truth and Goodness Reconceived Communities of Inquiry Democracy as a Community of Inquiry Scientific Ethics and Experiments of Living Meliorism: Convergence, Growth, Improvement, Progress 3. Practical Life Practices Practices as Solutions to Problems What Is a Problem? The Normative Character of Practices The Normative Governance of Practices 4. Practical Reasoning The Desire-Belief Model of Moral Motivation From Practical Reasoning to Practical Knowledge Problems as Moral Guidance 5. Normative Science The General and the Particular in Practical Knowledge Know-How and Know-That Practical Hypotheses Normative Naturalism The Empirical Warrant for Prudential Norms The Empirical Warrant for Good Ends and Righteous Means 6. Communities of Inquiry The Ends and Means of Inquiry The Problem of Epistemarchy Problems and the Governance of Practices 7. Change for the Better Progress as Preference for Ways of Life The Cumulative Theory of Progress Progress as a Function of Problem-Solving Effectiveness Moral Progress Has There Been Progress? Generalizing Problem-Solving Effectiveness Conclusion References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJames Jakób Liszka is Senior Scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life and Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He is the author of Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences; Moral Competence: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Ethics (second edition); A General Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce; and The Semiotic of Myth: A Critical Study of the Symbol (Advances in Semiotics). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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