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James Donald Wallace (May 21, 1937 – July 7, 2019) was an American philosopher. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for 49 years.
Wallace begins by identifying two assumptions that are ‘deeply entrenched in Anglo-American philosophical ethics’: (1) that ‘ethical norms have an origin, existence, and authority independent from actual historical social practice’; and (2) that ‘each individual could, in principle, gain knowledge of such norms independently of other ...
- Sander Voerman
- 2014
15 de mar. de 2011 · In Norms and Practices, James D. Wallace shows that norms of all kinds, including ethical norms, are intensely social constructs learned through constant interaction with others. Wallace...
James D. Wallace - 1996 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. James D. Wallace treats moral considerations as beliefs about the right and wrong ways of doing things - beliefs whose source and authority are the same as any ... Value Theory. Value Theory, Miscellaneous.
30 de jun. de 2019 · In this book, Wallace criticizes the standard philosophical accounts of how we should resolve problems of moral relevance and moral conflict. He proceeds by looking at such accounts as...
- James D. Wallace
- Cornell University Press, 2019
- 1501743767, 9781501743764
- Moral Relevance and Moral Conflict
what exactly is its force? Wallace is not merely drawing our attention to the relevance of objective studies to normative conclusions: even a hard line non-naturalist would have no quarrel with him there. He means, rather, that biology exemplifies a science in which normative facts are among the explananda which can be inferred from "objective ...
summary. James D. Wallace treats moral considerations as beliefs about the right and wrong ways of doing things—beliefs whose source and authority are the same as any other kind of practical knowledge. Principles, rules, and norms arise from people's cumulative experience in pursuing their purposes and struggling with the problems they encounter.
