Reasons for Action

Herausgeber: Sobel, David; Wall, Steven

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780521877466
• ISBN-10: 0521877466
• Artikelnr.: 26526658

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction David Sobel and Steven Wall
2. Intention, belief, and instrumental rationality Michael Bratman
3. Reasons: practical and adaptive Joseph Raz
4. The explanatory role of being rational Michael Smith
5. Practical competence and fluent agency Peter Railton
6. Practical conditionals James Dreier
7. Authority and second-personal reasons for acting Stephen Darwall
8. Promises, reasons, and normative powers Gary Watson
9. Regret and irrational action Justin D'Arms and Daniel Jacobson
10. Mackie's motivational argument Philip Clark
11. The truth in ecumenical expressivism Michael Ridge
12. Voluntarist reasons Ruth Chang.