Charles W Morris

Datos Biográficos

ID180390
NOMBRECharles W Morris
NOMBRESCharles W
APELLIDOMorris
FIRMAMORRIS C W
AFILIACIONESBowling Green State University
ORCID0000-0001-8724-9244
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS70
TOTAL DE CITAS302
TOTAL COMO AUTOR69
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1929
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2015
ÍNDICE H5

  • Game Theory

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisCHAPTERWiley Encyclopedia of Management2015

    A general and abstract explanation of game theory as a branch of the study of rational choice, namely, decisions in context of interdependent choice.

  • Mind, Self, and Society

    George Herbert Mead, Hans Joas et al.BOOKMind, Self and Society2015Citada por: 111

    George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected in Mind, Self, and Society all the more remarkable, as they offer a rare synthesis of his ideas. This collection gets to the heart of Mead's meditations on social psychology and social philosophy.…

  • The Idea of Moral Standing

    Charles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of animal…2012

  • State Coercion and Force

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisARTICLESocial Philosophy and Policy2012

    State power is widely thought to be coercive. The view that governments must wield force or that their power is necessarily coercive is widespread in contemporary political thought. John Rawls is representative in claiming that (political power is always coercive power backed up by the government(s use of sanctions, for government alone has the authority to use force in upholding its laws.( This belief in the centrality of coercion and force play…

  • State Legitimacy and Social Order

    Charles W Morris, Christopher MorrisCHAPTERPolitical Legitimization without…2008

  • Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisARTICLESocial Philosophy and Policy2005

    If we have a natural right to liberty, it is hard to see how a state could be legitimate without first obtaining the (genuine) consent of the governed. I consider the threat natural rights pose to state legitimacy. I distinguish minimal from full legitimacy and explore different understandings of the nature of our natural rights. Even though I conclude that natural rights do threaten the full legitimacy of states, I suggest that understanding our…

  • Representation, Responsibility and Reliability in Participant-Observation

    Eric Anderson, H M Blalock et al.CHAPTERQualitative Research in Action2002

  • Practical Rationality and Preference

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Robert Brandom et al.BOOKPractical Rationality and…2001

    What are preferences and are they reasons for action? Is it rational to cooperate with others even if that entails acting against one's preferences? The dominant position in philosophy on the topic of practical rationality is that one acts so as to maximize the satisfaction of one's preferences. This view is most closely associated with the work of David Gauthier, and in this collection of essays some of the most innovative philosophers working i…

  • The Very Idea of Popular Sovereignty

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisARTICLESocial Philosophy and Policy2000

    The sovereignty of the people, it is widely said, is the foundation of modern democracy. The truth of this claim depends on the plausibility of attributing sovereignty to “the people” in the first place, and I shall express skepticism about this possibility. I shall suggest as well that the notion of popular sovereignty is complex, and that appeals to the notion may be best understood as expressing several different ideas and ideals. This essay d…

  • An Essay on the Modern State

    A John Simmons, Charles W Morris et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2000

  • An Essay on the Modern State

    David Schmidtz, Charles W Morris et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2000

  • Justice, Reasons, and Moral Standing

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisCHAPTERRational Commitment and Social…1998

    The best account of the virtue of justice, I have long thought, is that offered by a certain type of contractarianism. This sort of approach seeks to base justice in mutual advantage. The implications it yields are clearly revisionist. As David Gauthier acknowledges, "No doubt there will be differences, perhaps significant, between the impartial and rational constraints supported by [contractarian morality]... and the morality learned from parent…

  • Rational Commitment and Social Justice

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Tyler Burge et al.BOOKRational Commitment and Social…1998

    Gregory S. Kavka (1947–94) was a prominent and influential figure in contemporary moral and political philosophy. The essays in this volume are concerned with fundamental issues of rational commitment and social justice to which Kavka devoted his work as a philosopher. The essays take Kavka's work as a point of departure and seek to advance the respective debates. The topics include: the relationship between intention and moral action as part of …

  • An Essay on the Modern State

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisBOOKEssay on the Modern State1998

    This important book is the first serious philosophical examination of the modern state. It inquires into the justification of this particular form of political society. It asks whether all states are 'nation-states', what are the alternative ways of organizing society, and which conditions make a state legitimate. The author concludes that, while states can be legitimate, they typically fail to have the powers (e.g sovereignty) that they claim. M…

  • Rational Choice for Machines

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisARTICLEDialogue1997Referencias: 2

    Why be moral? The question is very old. It takes many forms and is subject to many interpretations. On one interpretation, the question does not make sense (failed presupposition); to ask it is evidence of misunderstanding. This view is not as popular as it once was. The more fashionable answer today is that we have reasons to be moral. These reasons may themselves be moral, or they may be non-moral. In the first case, we may not have the answer …

  • Imagined communities

    Charles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisREVIEWHistory of European Ideas1995

    1995). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722

  • Justice

    Charles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisARTICLEThe Journal of Politics1994

  • Value, welfare, and morality

    Open AccessR G Frey, Charles W Morris et al.CHAPTERValue, Welfare, and Morality1993

  • Value, Welfare, and Morality

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, R G Frey et al.BOOKValue, Welfare, and Morality1993Citada por: 2

    This book addresses critical issues in normative ethical theory. Every such theory must contain not only a theory of motivation but also a theory of value, and the link that is often forged between what is valuable and what would be right is human welfare or well-being. This topic is a subject of considerable controversy in contemporary ethics, not least because of the current reconsideration of utilitarianism. Indeed, there is as much disagreeme…

  • Liability and Responsibility

    R A Duff, R G Frey et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1993

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Liability and Responsibility: Essays in Law and Morals. Edited By R. G. Frey and Christopher W. Morris. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 430. Price £35.00.) R. A. Duff R. A. Duff University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 171, April 1993, Pages 266–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220387 Publ…

  • On the Importance of Conversation

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisARTICLEDialogue1993Referencias: 3

    We are a species addicted to conversation. In a remarkable book, Allan Gibbard argues that conversation is “far more than a carrier of information. In talk we work out not only what to believe about things and events and people, but how to live. We work out how to feel about things in our lives, and in the lives of others” (pp. 3–4). In discussion we arrive at the norms that govern our lives. We determine thus what is to count as morally right or…

  • Punishment and Loss of Moral Standing

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisARTICLECanadian Journal of Philosophy1991

    When any man, even in political society, renders himself by his crimes obnoxious to the public, he is punished by the laws in his goods and person; that is, the ordinary rules of justice are, with regard to him, suspended for a moment, and it becomes equitable to inflict on him, for the benefit of society, what otherwise he could not suffer without wrong or injury?

  • A Hobbesian Welfare State

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisARTICLEDialogue1988Referencias: 10

    Suppose that we have negative, natural rights to our lives, liberty, and possessions and that these rights are absolute or indefeasible. Then at best only minimal states will be legitimate, where such are states that restrict their activities to the enforcement of the basic rights of individuals and the like. (Indeed, it is possible that no actual states, minimal or not, will be legitimate.) Such appears to be the consequence of absolute natural …

  • Marxism in Québec

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisARTICLEDialogue1984

    Maurice Lagueux's new book, winner of the Governor General's Award, is a collection of essays on different topics in Marxist philosophy and social thought. Often very critical of the ideas and theses he examines, the unifying theme of the collection is indicated by the subtitle, “une saison dans l'histoire de la pensée critique”. Lagueux's efforts are largely devoted to evaluating the ideas that captured the imagination of much of the left, espec…

  • Philosophy of EconomicsC. Dyke Englewood Cliffs, NJ

    Open AccessCharles W Morris, Christopher W MorrisARTICLEDialogue1983

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