In The Weight of Reasons, Chris Tucker offers a comprehensive approach to weighing reasons, proposing a new model, Dual Scale, that illuminates how reasons interact to determine whether an action is permissible, required, and/or supererogatory.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Part I. Weighty Matters
- Chapter 1: Minding the Metaphors of Weight and Weighing
- Chapter 2: A Holist Balance Scale
- Part II. From Single to Dual Scale
- Chapter 3: The Representational Limits of Single Scale
- Chapter 4: The Representational Power of Dual Scale
- Chapter 5: Weighing Reasons Against
- Part III. Ethical Puzzles Resolved
- Chapter 6: Against Weight Monism
- Chapter 7: Moral Options and the Normative Significance of Small Improvements
- Chapter 8: The All or Nothing Ranking Reversal and the Unity of Morality
- Part IV. Wrapping Up
- Chapter 9: Modeling Requirement for Any Number of Options
- 10: Conclusion
