Sergio Tenenbaum (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy,

Rational Powers in Action

Instrumental Rationality and Extended Agency

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rational Powers in Action presents a conception of instrumental rationality as governing actions that are extended in time with indeterminate ends. Tenenbaum argues that previous philosophical theories in this area, in focusing on momentary snapshots of the mind of idealized agents, miss central aspects of human rationality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780198889564
• ISBN-10: 0198889569
• Artikelnr.: 68056218

Autorenporträt

Sergio Tenenbaum is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the editor of Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives (Oxford, 2010), and the author of Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason (Cambridge, 2007) as well as numerous articles in ethics, practical rationality, moral psychology, and Kant's practical philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Extended Action and Instrumental Rationality: The Structure of a
Theory of Instrumental Rationality
* 2: Extended Theory of Rationality: Basic Tenets and Motivations
* 3: Pursuing Ends as the Fundamental Given Attitude
* 4: Indeterminate Ends and the Puzzle of the Self-Torturer
* 5: Future-Directed Intentions and the Theory of Instrumental
Rationality
* 6: Persisting Intentions
* 7: Instrumental Virtues
* 8: Practical Judgment and its Corresponding Vices
* 9: Actions, Preferences, and Risk