Reasons For Action

Author : David Sobel,Steven Wall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139474399

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Reasons for Action by David Sobel,Steven Wall Pdf

What are our reasons for acting? Morality purports to give us these reasons, and so do norms of prudence and the laws of society. The theory of practical reason assesses the authority of these potentially competing claims, and for this reason philosophers with a wide range of interests have converged on the topic of reasons for action. This volume contains eleven essays on practical reason by leading and emerging philosophers. Topics include the differences between practical and theoretical rationality, practical conditionals and the wide-scope ought, the explanation of action, the sources of reasons, and the relationship between morality and reasons for action. The volume will be essential reading for all philosophers interested in ethics and practical reason.

Author : Maria Alvarez
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191613937

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Kinds of Reasons by Maria Alvarez Pdf

Understanding human beings and their distinctive rational and volitional capacities is one of the central tasks of philosophy. The task requires a clear account of such things as reasons, desires, emotions and motives, and of how they combine to produce and explain human behaviour. In Kinds of Reasons, Maria Alvarez offers a fresh and incisive treatment of these issues, focusing in particular on reasons as they feature in contexts of agency. Her account builds on some important recent work in the area; but she takes her main inspiration from the tradition that receives its seminal contemporary expression in the writings of G.E.M. Anscombe, a tradition that runs counter to the broadly Humean orthodoxy that has dominated the theory of action for the past forty years. Alvarez's conclusions are therefore likely to be controversial; and her bold and painstaking arguments will be found provocative by participants on every side of the debates with which she engages. Clear and directly written, Kinds of Reasons aims to stake out a distinctive position within one of the most hotly contested areas of contemporary philosophy.

Author : David Sobel,Steven Wall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015080825535

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Reasons for Action by David Sobel,Steven Wall Pdf

This volume contains eleven essays on practical reason by leading and emerging philosophers.

Author : Robert Streiffer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 041593852X

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Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action by Robert Streiffer Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Piotr Makowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351497176

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Praxiology and the Reasons for Action by Piotr Makowski Pdf

This volume explores two traditions in practical philosophy: action theory, which concerns the nature of motivation for human action, and praxiology, the study of human action. By bringing different perspectives together, the volume strives to contribute to the international debate on theories of reasons for action as a philosophy of action.The volume consists of three main parts. The first part, "Reasons for Action," bridges the gap between reasons for action theories and praxiology. The second part of the volume, titled "Theories of Action," explores philosophical approaches to action. Finally, in the third part, "Applications," the contributors show several ways of applying praxiological ways of thinking and acting to the problems of reflection assessment, solving action incompleteness, and knowledge management.The ultimate goal of this volume is to broaden the scientific view of action: to establish a perspective on action that is permeated by moral theories on the one hand, and accounts focused on efficiency and economy of action on the other hand. This work is the newest volume in Transaction's Praxiology series.

Author : David A. J. Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015004807007

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A Theory of Reasons for Action by David A. J. Richards Pdf

Author : Robert Streiffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000080254

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Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action by Robert Streiffer Pdf

Originally published in 2003, this book examines moral relativism and the author discusses the main arguments for Appraiser Relativism and Agent Relativism. The final chapter of the book discusses the implication of some recent developments in metaethics and develops a theory of reasons for action based on the way in which an action can be good as an alternative to the desire-based, agent-centred account critiqued in the earlier chapters.

Author : Kieran Setiya,Hille Paakkunainen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262516402

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Internal Reasons by Kieran Setiya,Hille Paakkunainen Pdf

A collection of the most important recent work on reasons for action and the question “why be moral?” Some of the most challenging questions in philosophical ethics concern the justification of action. Can you have reasons to do something that you are not, and perhaps cannot be, motivated to do? If reasons rest on desires, why respect the rights and interests of others when doing so prevents us from getting what we want? In other words, why be moral? In his 1979 essay, “Internal and External Reasons,” Bernard Williams framed the dispute about reason and motivation in a way that captured the philosophical imagination. An explosion of work on reasons and action followed, with influential responses by Christine Korsgaard, John McDowell, and Michael Smith. This volume collects the most important work on the topic, including Williams's seminal essay, the responses by Korsgaard, McDowell, and Smith, and more recent contributions by central figures. Taken together, the selections offer a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art work on internal reasons and a distinctive, focused approach to foundational questions of ethical objectivity. A substantive introduction by Kieran Setiya skillfully guides the reader through the theoretical and conceptual terrain, explaining what is at stake in the larger debate.

Author : Ingmar Persson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198845034

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Reasons in Action by Ingmar Persson Pdf

Ingmar Persson offers an original view of the processes of human action: deliberating on the basis of reasons for and against actions, making a decision about what to do, and from there implementing the decision in action in a way that makes the action intentional. Persson's analysis is mainly developed to suit physical actions, though how it needs to be modified to cover mental acts is also discussed. The interpretation of intentional action that is presented is reductionist in the sense that it does not appeal to any concepts that are distinctive of the domain of action theory, such as a unique type of agent-causation, or irreducible mental acts, like acts of will, volitions, decisions, or tryings. Nor does it appeal to any unanalyzed attitudes or states essentially related to intentional action, like intentions and desires to act. Instead, the intentionality of actions is construed as springing from desires conceived as physical states of agents which cause facts because of the way agents think of them. A sense of our having responsibility that is sufficient for our acting for reasons is also sketched out.

Author : B.C. Postow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401728508

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Reasons for Action by B.C. Postow Pdf

2 first-person point of view, I acknowledge these possible handicaps and try to overcome them. Other people may coherently judge that I am incapable of figuring out correctly what I rationally ought to do, or they may inform me of reasons of which I had heretofore been ignorant, or they may try to help me overcome intellectual hindrances. Like me, these people would be assuming that the goal is to identify what I really rationally ought to do. Nevertheless, we are concerned with reasons for the agent to act in a certain way, rather than with reasons, say, for someone to want it to be the case that the agent act. Thus to be a reason in our sense is to be a consideration which has an appropriate guiding role to play in the. agents deliberation. (An agent is guided by reasons if she determines what to do in light of the reasons. ) Suppose then that a nor mative theory says that it is supremely desirable, or that it rationally ought to be the case, that agents act in a way that maximizes the general utility, but that (since the general utility is never in fact maximized by those who pay attention to it) considerations of the general utility should play no role in the agents' deliberation. Such a theory would not be said to ascribe to agents a reason to maximize the general utility on our usage.

Author : M.C. Redondo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401591416

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Reasons for Action and the Law by M.C. Redondo Pdf

A focus on reasons for action and practical reason is the perspective chosen by many contemporary legal philosophers for the analysis of some central questions of their discipline. This book offers a critical evaluation of that approach, by carefully examining the empirical, logical and normative problems hidden behind the concepts of `reason for action' and `practical reasoning'. Unlike most other works in this field, it is a meta-theoretical study which analyses and compares how different theories use the notion of reason in their reconstruction of problems concerning issues such as normativity, the acceptance of norms, or the justification of judicial decisions. This book is directed primarily to scholars specializing in legal theory and concerned with the contribution practical philosophy can make to it, but it also contains important arguments and insights for all those interested in the controversy between legal positivists and their critics, in the theory of human action or in reason-based practical theories in general.

Author : Frederic Schick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521408865

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Understanding Action by Frederic Schick Pdf

By taking account of people's understanding (along with their beliefs and desires) of their situations, options and prospects, this text is able to expand the current theory of decision and action.

Author : Bede Rundle
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191583414

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Mind in Action by Bede Rundle Pdf

Bede Rundle challenges the quasi-mechanical view of human action that is dominant in contemporary philosophy of mind. A materialist view of the mind and a causal theory of action fit together conveniently: the notion of action as caused by thoughts and desires allows philosophers to accommodate explanations of action within a framework that is congenial to scientific understanding, and the conception of mind as physical enables them to make sense of causal transactions between the two domains. Mind in Action offers an alternative approach. Compelling reasons are given for demoting causation and for shifting the emphasis to the role played by behaviour in accounts of thought, belief, desire, intention, freedom, and other key concepts. Rundle's approach sheds fresh light not only on human behaviour but also on animal mentality, and has important implications for the feasibility of current programmes in cognitive science.

Author : Simon Kirchin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199672349

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Thick Concepts by Simon Kirchin Pdf

An international team of experts explores the distinction between 'thin' concepts (general, evaluative terms like 'good' and 'bad') and 'thick' concepts (more specific concepts, such as 'brave', or 'rude'). Their essays touch on key debates in metaethics about the evaluative and normative, and raise fascinating questions about how language works.

Author : Daniel Star
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1105 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199657889

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The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity by Daniel Star Pdf

'The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity' contains 44 commissioned chapters on a wide range of topics, and will appeal to readers with an interest in ethics or epistemology. A diverse selection of substantive positions are defended by leading proponents of the views in question, and provide broad coverage of the study of reasons and normativity across multiple philosophical subfields. In addition to focusing on reasons as part of the study of ethics and as part of the study of epistemology (as well as focusing on reasons as part of the study of the philosophy of language and as part of the study of the philosophy of mind), the Handbook covers recent developments concerning the nature of normativity in general. A number of the contributions to the Handbook explicitly address such "metanormative" issues, bridging subfields as they do so. --