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OverviewShaping the Normative Landscape is an investigation of the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request. David Owens shows that these are all instruments by which we exercise control over our normative environment. Philosophers from Hume to Scanlon have supposed that when we make promises and give our consent, our real interest is in controlling (or being able to anticipate) what people will actually do and that our interest in rights and obligations is a by-product of this more fundamental interest. In fact, we value for its own sake the ability to decide who is obliged to do what, to determine when blame is appropriate, to settle whether an act wrongs us. Owens explores how we control the rights and obligations of ourselves and of those around us. We do so by making friends and thereby creating the rights and obligations of friendship. We do so by making promises and so binding ourselves to perform. We do so by consenting to medical treatment and thereby giving the doctor the right to go ahead. The normative character of our world matters to us on its own account. To make sense of promise, consent, friendship and other related phenomena we must acknowledge that normative interests are amongst our fundamental interests. We must also rethink the psychology of agency and the nature of social convention. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Owens (University of Reading)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.396kg ISBN: 9780198708049ISBN 10: 0198708041 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 07 August 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Interests 1: Blame and Guilt 2: Wronging 3: Obligation 4: Obligation and Involvement Part Two: Powers 5: The Problem with Promising 6: The Promissory Interest 7: The Possibility of Consent Part Three: Practices 8: What is a Promise? 9: The Promissory Bond 10: Which Promises Bind? References IndexReviewsShaping the Normative Landscape does two important things. First, it shows how these two general approaches can be reconciled. Second, it shows that some intractable difficulties across a wide range of normative phenomena have both an underlying unity and elegant solution. More importantly, the solution itself is intuitively appealing. Erin Taylor, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Changes one's view of an important subject. Allan Gibbard, The Times Literary Supplement ambitious, instructive and sophisticated Gerald Lang, Analysis Shaping the Normative Landscape does two important things. First, it shows how these two general approaches can be reconciled. Second, it shows that some intractable difficulties across a wide range of normative phenomena have both an underlying unity and elegant solution. More importantly, the solution itself is intuitively appealing. --Erin Taylor, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews changes one's view of an important subject. Allan Gibbard, The Times Literary Supplement Author InformationDavid Owens is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of two previous books: Causes and Coincidences (Cambridge 1992) and Reason Without Freedom (Routledge 2000). He has held visiting appointments at Yale University, Oxford University, Sydney University, London University, and at the Catholic University of Lublin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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