Intentionality Deliberation And Autonomy

Author : Sandro Nannini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317114789

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Many important thinkers in the philosophical tradition, like Aristotle or Hume, have used an explicit theory of action as the basis of their respective normative theories of practical rationality and morality. The idea behind this architecture of theories is that action theory can inform us about the origin, bonds, reach and limits of practical reason. The aim of this book is to revive this direct connection between action theory and practical philosophy, in particular to provide systematic action-theoretical underpinnings for the discussion about the normative structure of practical reason. This book brings together a collection of specially commissioned essays from internationally prestigious scholars in the field and represents the state of the art in contemporary philosophy of action. The book is divided into three parts: i. conceptual work about what actions, intentions and intentional actions are; ii. empirical theory of practical deliberation; and iii.theories about the action theoretic features of autonomy. The volume significantly advances these three lines of research and offers important new contributions to each of them.

Author : Christoph Lumer,Sandro Nannini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Act (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1315589184

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Intentionality, Deliberation, and Autonomy by Christoph Lumer,Sandro Nannini Pdf

Author : Sandro Nannini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317114796

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Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy by Sandro Nannini Pdf

Many important thinkers in the philosophical tradition, like Aristotle or Hume, have used an explicit theory of action as the basis of their respective normative theories of practical rationality and morality. The idea behind this architecture of theories is that action theory can inform us about the origin, bonds, reach and limits of practical reason. The aim of this book is to revive this direct connection between action theory and practical philosophy, in particular to provide systematic action-theoretical underpinnings for the discussion about the normative structure of practical reason. This book brings together a collection of specially commissioned essays from internationally prestigious scholars in the field and represents the state of the art in contemporary philosophy of action. The book is divided into three parts: i. conceptual work about what actions, intentions and intentional actions are; ii. empirical theory of practical deliberation; and iii.theories about the action theoretic features of autonomy. The volume significantly advances these three lines of research and offers important new contributions to each of them.

Author : Peter K. Machamer,Gereon Wolters
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822943921

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Interpretation by Peter K. Machamer,Gereon Wolters Pdf

The act of interpretation occurs in nearly every area of the arts and sciences. That ubiquity serves as the inspiration for the fourteen essays of this volume, covering many of the domains in which interpretive practices are found. Individual topics include: the general nature of interpretation and its forms; comparing and contrasting interpretation and hermeneutics; culture as interpretation seen through Hegel’s aesthetics; interpreting philosophical texts; methodologies for interpreting human action; interpretation in medical practice focusing on manifestations as indicators of disease; the brain and its interpretative, structured, learning and storage processes; interpreting hybrid wines and cognitive preconceptions of novel objects; and the importance of sensory perception as means of interpreting in the case of dry German Rieslings. In an interesting turn, Nicholas Rescher writes on the interpretation of philosophical texts. Then Catherine Wilson and Andreas Blank explicate and critique Rescher’s theories through analysis of the mill passage from Leibniz’s Monadology.

Author : Claudia Blöser,Mikae Janvid,Hannes Ole Matthiessen,Marcus Willaschek
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789401210119

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Defeasibility in Philosophy by Claudia Blöser,Mikae Janvid,Hannes Ole Matthiessen,Marcus Willaschek Pdf

Defeasibility, most generally speaking, means that given some set of conditions A, something else B will hold, unless or until defeating conditions C apply. While the term was introduced into philosophy by legal philosopher H.L.A. Hart in 1949, today, the concept of defeasibility is employed in many different areas of philosophy. This volume for the first time brings together contributions on defeasibility from epistemology (Mikael Janvid, Klemens Kappel, Hannes Ole Matthiessen, Marcus Willaschek, Michael Williams), legal philosophy (Frederick Schauer) and ethics and the philosophy of action (Claudia Blöser, R. Jay Wallace, Michael Quante and Katarzyna Paprzycka). The volume ends with an extensive bibliography (by Michael de Araujo Kurth).

Author : Christoph Lumer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614518013

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Morality in Times of Naturalising the Mind by Christoph Lumer Pdf

Since the millennium, the neurophysiological and psychological bases of moral judgements and actions have been the topic of much empirical research. This volume discusses the relevance and possible usage of this research for (meta-)ethics and action theory. An overview of the empirical research, followed by critical assessments of several of its results, provides orientation on the research and criteria for its reasonable usage.

Author : Manuel Vargas,Gideon Yaffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199794515

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Rational and Social Agency by Manuel Vargas,Gideon Yaffe Pdf

Michael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology. This is a collection of critical essays by some of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished figures, with an editorial introduction situating Bratman's work and its broader significance. The essays in this volume engage with ideas and themes prominent in Bratman's work. The volume also includes a lengthy reply by Bratman, which breaks new ground and deepens our understanding of the nature of action, rationality, and social agency.

Author : Michael Quante
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319568690

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Personal Identity as a Principle of Biomedical Ethics by Michael Quante Pdf

This book brings together the debate concerning personal identity (in metaphysics) and central topics in biomedical ethics (conception of birth and death; autonomy, living wills and paternalism). Based on a metaphysical account of personal identity in the sense of persistence and conditions for human beings, conceptions for beginning of life, and death are developed. Based on a biographical account of personality, normative questions concerning autonomy, euthanasia, living wills and medical paternalism are dealt with. By these means the book shows that “personal identity” has different meanings which have to be distinguished so that human persistence and personality can be used to deal with central questions in biomedical ethics.

Author : Bruno Verbeek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351906319

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Reasons and Intentions by Bruno Verbeek Pdf

There are a number of problems in philosophy that seem to share a similar possible solution: 'Why do promises and contracts bind?', 'Why ought citizens and judges obey the law?' and 'Can we realize the gains to be made from cooperation?'. All three problems (as well as some others) share a possible solution in the form of rational internal commitment. Reasons and Intentions is a 'state-of-the-art' overview of the relevant positions on the possibility of such commitment, including critical ones. The introduction provides a survey of the central problem of the volume, 'how the will can bind itself and still be instrumental in nature', and the various positions which are further examined in the contributions. Addressing the question of the relation between intentions and action, the considerations which make an intention rational and how this translates into our conception of (moral) agency, this book brings together specially commissioned essays by the leading scholars in the field.

Author : Piotr Tomasz Makowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319400518

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Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s Action Theory by Piotr Tomasz Makowski Pdf

The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates. Piotr Makowski shows that Kotarbiński–Alfred Tarski’s teacher and one of the most important philosophers of the renowned Lvov-Warsaw school—proposed a groundbreaking, original, and (in at least a few respects) still fresh perspective in action theorizing. The book examines and develops Kotarbiński’s ideas in the context of the most recent discussions in the philosophy of action. The main idea behind Kotarbiński’s action theory—and thus, behind this book—is the significance of the philosophical investigations of the general conditions of effectiveness, efficiency, and economy of intentional actions. Makowski presents and reinterprets Kotarbiński’s views on these dimensions of our activities and sheds new light on the most important areas of action theory.

Author : John Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191017247

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How to be Good by John Harris Pdf

'How to be Good?' is the pre-eminent question for ethics, although one that philosophers and ethicists seldom address head on. Knowing how to be good, or perhaps (more modestly and more accurately) knowing how to go about trying to be good, and the ways in which it is pointless or self-defeating to try to be good, is of immense theoretical and practical importance. And what goes for trying to be good oneself, goes also for trying to provide others with ways of being good, and for trying to make them good whether they like it or not. This is what is meant by 'moral enhancement'. There are many proposed methodologies or technologies for moral enhancement. Some of them are ancient and/or familiar: we may attempt moral enhancement by setting a good example, by good parenting, by education or training, by peer pressure, by telling stories with a moral, in words or in pictures, and so on. We can imbibe substances with mood changing or motivational effects. We can also use medical, biological, or other scientific means; we can search for and deploy chemicals, or biological or molecular agents, which we believe will change people for the better; and we can modify the environment to make bad outcomes of all sorts less likely. We can experiment with political and social systems, institutions, and arrangements designed to make the world a better place or people better people. The question whether and to what extent moral enhancement is possible is the subject of this book.

Author : Susana Cadilha,Carlos Mauro,Sofia Miguens
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781443850032

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Conversations on Human Action and Practical Rationality by Susana Cadilha,Carlos Mauro,Sofia Miguens Pdf

This volume brings together leading scholars in the study of practical rationality and human action – namely, Alfred Mele, Hugh McCann, Michael Bratman, George Ainslie, Daniel Hausman and Joshua Knobe. They were interviewed by the editors in a project based at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto structured around the questions: 1) In your view, what are the most central (or important) problems in the philosophy of action? 2) For some or all of the following – action, agency, agent – what do they contrast with most significantly? 3) Which of these are liable to be rational/irrational? 4) In what sense is the thing to do to be decided by what is rational? Are there limits of rationality? 5) What explains action, and how? What is the role of deliberation in rationality? 6) How is akrasia possible (if you think it is)? 7) How do you think your own work has contributed to the field? What are your plans for future research? The outcome is of great interest, not only for philosophers, but also for economists, psychologists, political scientists and sociologists.

Author : Justin Sytsma,Wesley Buckwalter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118661697

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A Companion to Experimental Philosophy by Justin Sytsma,Wesley Buckwalter Pdf

This is a comprehensive collection of essays that explores cutting-edge work in experimental philosophy, a radical new movement that applies quantitative and empirical methods to traditional topics of philosophical inquiry. Situates the discipline within Western philosophy and then surveys the work of experimental philosophers by sub-discipline Contains insights for a diverse range of fields, including linguistics, cognitive science, anthropology, economics, and psychology, as well as almost every area of professional philosophy today Edited by two rising scholars who take a broad and inclusive approach to the field Offers a complete introduction for non-specialists and students to the central approaches, findings, challenges, and controversies in experimental philosophy

Author : Ian Olver
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401719766

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Is Death Ever Preferable to Life? by Ian Olver Pdf

This is an original contribution to the much debated area of the value that we should place on human life. With the euthanasia issue highlighted in the public arena this book argues for a non-absolutist highest value on life ethic and how that fits with society's current emphasis on individual autonomy. By the use of everyday examples the impact of placing a high value on life is explored. It will be useful for students of ethics, nursing and medicine and those engaged in the public debate on euthanasia.

Author : Maria Carla Galavotti,Dennis Dieks,Wenceslao J. Gonzalez,Stephan Hartmann,Thomas Uebel,Marcel Weber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319043821

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New Directions in the Philosophy of Science by Maria Carla Galavotti,Dennis Dieks,Wenceslao J. Gonzalez,Stephan Hartmann,Thomas Uebel,Marcel Weber Pdf

This volume sheds light on still unexplored issues and raises new questions in the main areas addressed by the philosophy of science. Bringing together selected papers from three main events, the book presents the most advanced scientific results in the field and suggests innovative lines for further investigation. It explores how discussions on several notions of the philosophy of science can help different scientific disciplines in learning from each other. Finally, it focuses on the relationship between Cambridge and Vienna in twentieth century philosophy of science. The areas examined in the book are: formal methods, the philosophy of the natural and life sciences, the cultural and social sciences, the physical sciences and the history of the philosophy of science.