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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.
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
15 mar 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....
7 ago 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.)
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
- Cornell University Press, 2009
- 0801447194, 9780801447198
- Norms and Practices
Ethical Norms, Particular Cases. James D. Wallace. Cornell University Press, 1996 - Authority - 171 pages. James D. Wallace treats moral considerations as beliefs about the right and...
6 set 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.
