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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.
7 de ago. de 2019 · A well-known moral philosopher, he was emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he taught for nearly fifty years. (He was also the father of the writer David Foster Wallace, who predeceased him.)
As we learn how to solve problems and act on this knowledge, the practice itself changes.In Norms and Practices, James D. Wallace shows that norms of all kinds, including ethical norms, are...
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...
