Shaping the Normative Landscape

by David Owens

Book Overview

Shaping the Normative Landscape is an investigation of the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request. David Owens shows that these are all instruments by which we exercise control over our normative environment. Philosophers from Hume to Scanlon have supposed that when we make promises and give our consent, our real interest is in controlling (or being able to anticipate) what people will actually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198708041
• ISBN13: 9780198708049
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"