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Subject(s)

• Concepts [Browse]
• Authority [Browse]
• Philosophy of mind [Browse]
• Ethics [Browse]

Series

Oxford scholarship online [More in this series]

Summary note

Philosophy strives to give us a firmer hold on our concepts. But what about their hold on us? Why place ourselves under the sway of a concept and grant it the authority to shape our thought and conduct? Another conceptualization would carry different implications. What makes one way of thinking better than another? 'The Ethics of Conceptualization' develops a framework for concept appraisal. Its guiding idea is that to question the authority of concepts is to ask for reasons of a special kind: reasons for concept use, which tell us which concepts to adopt, adhere to, or abandon, thereby shoring up - or undercutting - the reasons for action and belief that guide our deliberations.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 23, 2025).

ISBN

9780198926283 (ebook)

OCLC

1487562981

Doi

• 10.1093/9780198926283.001.0001

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