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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.
15. März 2011 · Wallace shows that practices and norms, including ethical norms within such spheres as biomedical research, family life, and politics, continually change as practitioners face novel problems....
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
6. Sept. 2009 · In this slim, highly readable volume, James D. Wallace attempts to show that mainstream, philosophical ethics has misconstrued the relationship between ethical norms and the practices that embody and express them.
James D. Wallace maintains that a successful ethical theory should be able to answer these important questions. Nevertheless, he argues, the leading contemporary moral theories do not satisfactorily address them. In this book, Wallace criticizes the standard philosophical accounts of how we should resolve problems of moral relevance and moral ...
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...
30. Juni 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...
