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Author : Elijah Millgram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521839432
Examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory.
Author : Jonathan Dancy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192528018
Everyone allows that we can reason to a new belief from beliefs that we already have. Aristotle thought that we could also reason from beliefs to action. Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning establishes this possibility of reasoning to action, in a way that allows also for reasoning to intention, hope, fear, and doubt. While many philosophers have found little sense in Aristotle's claim, Dancy offers a general theory of reasoning that is sensitive to current debates but still Aristotelian in spirit. The text clearly sets out the similarities between reasoning to action and reasoning to belief, which are far more striking than any dissimilarities. Its detailed account of practical reasoning, a topic inadequately covered in current literature, is presented in such a way as to be intelligible to a variety of readers, making it an ideal resource for students of philosophy but also of interest to academics in related disciplines.
Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134219216
Presenting the most comprehensive and lucid account of the topic currently available, Robert Audi's "Practical Reasoning and Ethical Decision" is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of reason in ethics or the nature of human action. The first part of the book is a detailed critical overview of the influential theories of practical reasoning found in Aristotle, Hume and Kant, whilst the second part examines practical reasoning in the light of important topics in moral psychology - weakness of will, self-deception, rationalization and others. In the third part, Audi describes the role of moral principles in practical reasoning and clarifies the way practical reasoning underlies ethical decisions. He formulates a comprehensive set of concrete ethical principles, explains how they apply to reasoning about what to do, and shows how practical reasoning guides moral conduct.
Author : Ruth Chang,Kurt Sylvan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000337068
Over the last several decades, questions about practical reason have come to occupy the center stage in ethics and metaethics. The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason is an outstanding reference source to this exciting and distinctive subject area and is the first volume of its kind. Comprising thirty-six chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field and is divided into five parts: Foundational Matters Practical Reason in the History of Philosophy Philosophy of Practical Reason as Action Theory and Moral Psychology Philosophy of Practical Reason as Theory of Practical Normativity The Philosophy of Practical Reason as the Theory of Practical Rationality The Handbook also includes two chapters by the late Derek Parfit, ‘Objectivism about Reasons’ and ‘Normative Non-Naturalism.’ The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason is essential reading for philosophy students and researchers in metaethics, philosophy of action, action theory, ethics, and the history of philosophy.
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486113029
This 1788 work, based on belief in the immortality of the soul, established Kant as a vindicator of the truth of Christianity. It offers the most complete statement of his theory of free will.
Author : Joseph Raz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191018589
Practical Reason and Norms focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? All three questions are answered by taking reasons as the basic normative concept, and showing the distinctive role reasons have in every case, thus paving the way to a unified account of normativity. Rules are a structure of reasons to perform the required act and an exclusionary reason not to follow some competing reasons. Exclusionary reasons are explained, and used to unlock the secrets of orders, promises, and decisions as well as rules. Games are used to exemplify normative systems. Inevitably, the analysis extends to some aspects of normative discourse, which is truth-apt, but with a diminished assertoric force.
Author : Neil MacCormick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191021473
The concept of practical reason is central to contemporary thought on ethics and the philosophy of law - acting well means acting for good reasons. Explaining this requires several stages. How do reasons relate to actions at all, as incentives and in explanations? What are values, how do they relate to human nature, and how do they enter practical reasoning? How do the concepts of 'right and wrong' fit in, and in what way do they involve questions of mutual trust among human beings? How does our moral freedom - our freedom to form our own moral commitments - relate to our responsibilities to each other? How is this final question transposed into law and legal commitments? This book explores these questions, vital to understanding the nature of law and morality. It presents a clear account of practical reason, valuable to students of moral philosophy and jurisprudence at undergraduate or postgraduate levels. For more advanced scholars it also offers a reinterpretation of Kant's views on moral autonomy and Smith's on self-command, marrying Smith's 'moral sentiments' to Kant's 'categorical imperative' in a novel way. The book concludes and underpins the author's Law, State, and Practical Reason series. Taken together the books offer an overarching theory of the nature of law and legal reason, the role of the State, and the nature of moral reason and judgement.
Author : Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804733635
This work by Pierre Bourdieu develops the anthropological theory which has formed the basis of his scientific research. It discusses the problems posed by "structuralist" philosophers in order to solve or dissolve them.
Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199241392
Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those passions? Blackburn seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt, shame, disgust, and other moral emotions; he draws also on game theory and cognitive science in his account of the structures of human motivation. Many philosophers have wanted a naturalistic ethics a theory that integrates our understanding of human morality with the rest of our understanding of the world we live in. What is special about Blackburn's naturalistic ethics is that it does not debunk the ethical by reducing it to the non-ethical. At the same time he banishes the spectres of scepticism and relativism that have haunted recent moral philosophy. Ruling Passions sets ethics in the context of human nature: it offers a solution to the puzzle of how ethics can maintain its authority even though it is rooted in the very emotions and motivations that it exists to control.
Author : Elijah Millgram
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262632209
An overview of the philosophical subfield of practical reasoning.
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UVA:X030214840
Author : Adam Westra
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110455939
In the Typic chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant aims to enable moral judgment by means of the law of nature, which serves as the ‘type’, or formal analogue, of moral law. The present monograph is the first comprehensive study of this key text. It provides a detailed commentary on the Typic, situates it within Kant’s ethics and his theory of symbolic representation, and critically engages with the relevant secondary literature.
Author : Thomas E. Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015025277198
Author : Immanuel Kant,Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486434452
The second of Kant’s three critiques, Critique of Practical Reason forms the center of Kantian philosophy. Kant establishes his role as a vindicator of the truth of Christianity in this work, published in 1788, and he approaches his proof by presenting positive affirmations of the immortality of the soul and the existence of God. The philosopher offers an argument concerning the summum bonum of life: people should not simply search after happiness, but follow the moral law and seek to become worthy of the happiness that God can bestow. This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy offers the most complete statement of Kant’s theory of free will and a full development of his practical metaphysics.
Author : Andrews Reath,Jens Timmermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107675383
The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, and his second work in moral theory after the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Its systematic account of the authority of moral principles grounded in human autonomy unfolds Kant's considered views on morality and provides the keystone to his philosophical system. The essays in this volume shed light on the principal arguments of the second Critique and explore their relation to Kant's critical philosophy as a whole. They examine the genesis of the Critique, Kant's approach to the authority of the moral law given as a 'fact of reason', the metaphysics of free agency, the account of respect for morality as the moral motive, and questions raised by the 'primacy of practical reason' and the idea of the 'postulates'. Engaging and critical, this volume will be invaluable to advanced students and scholars of Kant and to moral theorists alike.