Andy Mueller

Beings of Thought and Action

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781108834377
• ISBN-10: 110883437X
• Artikelnr.: 61264337

Autorenporträt

Andy Mueller is a post-doctoral fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt. He works on epistemology and practical reasoning and has published articles in journals including Analysis, Analytic Philosophy, Episteme, and Synthese.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part I. Beings of Thought in Action: 1. Epistemic encroachment on practical rationality
2. Practical reasoning, ends, and the end of hope
3. Contexts, costs, and benefits
4. Knowledge and seemingly risky actions
Part II. Beings of Action in Thought: 5. Pragmatic encroachment in epistemology
6. Reasons for belief and the primacy of the practical
7. Assessing potential explanations of pragmatic encroachment
8. Social beings
Epilogue.