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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.
7. Aug. 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.)
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 ...
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....
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.
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 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 ...
