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Human Agency: Language, Duty, and Value : Philosophical Essays in Honor of J.O. Urmson
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Literary TheoryMoral PhilosophyValue TheoryHuman ConditionAgency (Feminist Philosophy)Social SciencesLiterary CriticismMoral SubjectsPhilosophical EssaysHuman ValueImaginative WritingPoeticsPhilosophy (French Literary Studies)Philosophy (Philosophy Of Mind)Human AgencyLanguage UseRomance StudiesHumanitiesPhilosophy Of LanguageNormative EthicPhilosophical InquiryRhetorical TheoryMoral LifeArtsMetaphysics Of Morality
Introduction J. M. E. Moravcsik Prichard and knowledge J. O. Urmson Part I. Theories of language Use: 1. Things done with words Jennifer Hornsby 2. Context-fixing semantics for the language of action Patrick Suppes and Colleen Crangle 3. Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber Part II. Duty and the Moral Life: 4. Aristotle on moral luck Anthony Kenny 5. Urmson on Aristotle on pleasure C. C. W. Taylor 6. The perils of friendship and conceptions of the self J. M. E. Moravcsik 7. Moral subjects, freedom, and idiosyncrasy David Heyd 8. Supererogation and moral realism Jonathan Dancy 9. What does intuituinism imply? Bernard Williams Part III. Aesthetic Values and Valuations: 10. Aesthetic satisfaction Bruce Vermazen 11. Live performances and dead composers: on the ethics of musical interpretation Peter Kivy 12. The presentation and portrayal of sound patterns Kendall L. Walton 13. Sports and art: beginning questions Philosophical writings of J. O. Urmson Notes Index of names.