Author:
Floyd, Jonathan, 1980- author.
ImprintNew York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Descriptionxi, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Note:INTRODUCTION. What is this book about? ; Synopsis of chapter one ; Synopsis of chapter two ; Synopsis of chapter three ; Who am I to say this? -- SYMPTOM: INTERMINABILITY. Overview ; Three questions: OQ, FQ, SQ ; Rawls and a few of his rivals ; A reassessment of the problem and a switch in literature ; Isaiah Berlin: from value-pluralism, to universal evils, to liberalism ; Rawls' second set of answers: from reasonableness to liberalism ; United by an ideal of democracy? ; United by an ideal of tolerance? ; Stuart Hampshire and a second argument from universal evils ; Joseph Raz: practical reason as a guide to political morality ; Alasdair Macintyre: competing traditions as a guide to morality ; Rorty's liberalism by redescription ; A variety of further responses: denial, judgement, deferral ; Interminability described: the impossibility thesis introduced ; The impossibility thesis sustained ; Summary of arguments and a sketch of what follows -- DIAGNOSIS: MENTALISM. Introduction ; What mentalism is ; Mentalism's techniques ; Three types of mentalist evidence and a synopsis of why mentalism fails ; The evidence for failure, part 1: impartial choices ; The evidence for failure, part 2: considered judgements ; The evidence for failure, part 3: intuitive choices of abstract principle ; Normative dissonance in full view ; Objections and clarifications ; The problem restated -- CURE: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOURISM. Introduction ; Normative behaviourism: a brief sketch ; Preliminaries, part 1: facts, principles, thoughts, and behavior ; Preliminaries, part 2: reasonable objections, causes/purposes, reliable tendencies, and the case for experimental optimism ; An explanatory theory of social-liberal-democracy's success ; The relationship between normative behaviourism, psychological behaviourism, political behaviouralism, and political science more generally ; Reasons to be convinced by social-liberal-democracy ; Normative behaviourism defended against five objections ; Conclusions -- CONCLUSION. Overview ; Reiteration: out of the cave and on the way to Denmark ; Clarification by way of a new set of comparisons ; Concessions and reflections.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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