Problems of Choice: Normativity, Rationality, Axiology, and Morality (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

This volume features new, cutting-edge research on problems of choice in connection with four different fields of inquiry: normativity, rationality, axiology, and morality.It addresses a wide range of pressing issues to which problems of choice and practical conflicts give rise, and the various ways in which philosophical theories are used to represent them. Philosophers often think about making choices in terms of trying to determine what we have most reason to do, what is the best choice overall, what is most rational, or what we ought to do all things considered.Such models of choice appear theoretically neat, but quickly run into another problem that we experience in our everyday lives: that the reasons, values, considerations, and normative perspectives that we take as our input are diverse and sometimes of a conflicting nature.In addition to familiar debates about value pluralism, recent philosophical work has argued that normativity is pluralistic and fragmented: it consists of