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Meaning, Decision, and Norms: Themes from the Work of Allan Gibbard

Edited by Billy Dunaway & David Plunkett
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It is not an exaggeration to say that Allan Gibbard is one of the most significant contributors to philosophy over the last five decades. Gibbard’s work covers an impressive number of subfields within philosophy, including ethics, philosophy of language, decision theory, epistemology, and metaphysics. It also engages with, and makes significant contributions to, work from the natural and social sciences.

This volume is not a collection of artifacts from past decades of philosophy. Instead, it is a collection of essays that each make a significant contribution to contemporary work in philosophy. This reflects the fact that Gibbard’s work has not only had a massive influence on past discussion in philosophy but also continues to influence new directions of philosophical research.

With contributions from:
Sara Aronowitz, Simon Blackburn, Paul Boghossian, David Braddon-Mitchell, Nate Charlow, Stephen Darwall, Jamie Dreier, Billy Dunaway, Melissa Fusco, Sona Ghosh, Allan Gibbard, Bill Harper, Paul Horwich, Zoë Johnson King, Tristram McPherson, Howard Nye, Lauren Olin, Caleb Perl, David Plunkett, Peter Railton, Connie Rosati, Mark Schroeder, Alex Silk, Daniel J. Singer, Brian Skyrms, and Seth Yalcin.

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  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abstracts
  • Introduction
  • I. Norms in Decision and Belief
    • 1. DECISION DYNAMICS AND RATIONAL CHOICE by William L. Harper
      • APPENDIX 1 DYNAMICS CALCULATIONS by Sona Ghosh
      • APPENDIX 2A DEATH IN DAMASCUS: CONTINUOUS TIME DYNAMICS by Brian Skyrms
      • APPENDIX 2B DEATH IN DAMASCUS: TEMPERED DISCRETE TIME DYNAMICS by Brian Skyrms
    • 2. COUNTERFACTUALS AND THE GIBBARD-HARPER COLLAPSE LEMMA by Melissa Fusco
    • 3. WHO’S AFRAID OF NORMATIVE EXTERNALISM? by Zoë Johnson King
    • 4. WHAT EPISTEMIC REASONS ARE FOR by Daniel J. Singer and Sara Aronowitz
  • II. Warranted Feelings
    • 5. ASSESSING FEELINGS by Simon Blackburn
    • 6, A GIBBARDIAN ACCOUNT OF (NARROW) MORAL CONCEPTS by Stephen Darwall
    • 7. MORALITY AND THE BEARING OF APTFEELINGS ON WISE CHOICES by Howard Nye
  • III. Expressivism, Normative Language, and Semantics
    • 8. EXPRESSIVISM WITHOUT MINIMALISM by Tristram McPherson
    • 9. METASEMANTIC QUANDARIES by Nate Charlow
    • 10. WEAK AND STRONG NECESSITY MODALS by Alex Silk
    • 11. HOW TO OUTFOX SLY PETE by Caleb Perl
    • 12. MODELING WITH HYPERPLANS by Seth Yalcin
  • IV. Disagreement, Objectivity, and Realism
    • 13. CONVERGENCE IN PLAN by Mark Schroeder
    • 14. COMIC DISAGREEMENT by Lauren Olin
    • 15. EXPRESSIVISM AND OBJECTIVITY by Peter Railton
    • 16. THE METAPHYSICAL CONCEPTION OF REALISM by Billy Dunaway
  • V. The Normativity of Meaning
    • 17. THE NORMATIVITY OF MEANING REVISITED by Paul Boghossian
    • 18. OBLIGATIONS OF MEANING by Paul Horwich
    • 19. THE NORMATIVE EXPLANATION OF NORMATIVITY by Jamie Dreier
  • VI. Consequentialism
    • 20. GIBBARD ON RECONCILING OUR AIMS by Connie S. Rosati
    • 21. FREEDOM AND DIRECT BINDING CONSEQUENTIALISM by David Braddon-Mitchell
  • VII. Response from Allan Gibbard
    • 22. REPLY TO COMMENTATORS by Allan Gibbard
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Published: 2022
Publisher: Michigan Publishing Services
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-60785-464-7 (paper)
  • 978-1-60785-465-4 (ebook)
  • 978-1-60785-707-5 (open access)
Subject
  • PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  • PHILOSOPHY / Essays
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