Brian Hedden

Reasons Without Persons

Rationality, Identity, and Time

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Produktbeschreibung

Brian Hedden defends a radical view about rationality, personal identity, and time. He argues that what it is rational to do should not depend on your past beliefs or actions, which are not part of your current perspective on the world. His impersonal approach holds that what rationality demands of you is solely determined by your evidence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198732594
• ISBN-10: 0198732597
• Artikelnr.: 47869642

Autorenporträt

Brian Hedden was an undergraduate at Princeton University, graduating with a degree in philosophy in 2006. He received his doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012, after which he was a junior research fellow at Oxford University until 2014. Since 2015 he has been a lecturer at the University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1: Time-Slice Rationality
2: General Motivations
3: Against Diachronic Principles
4: Against Reflection Principles
5: The Diachronic Tragedy Argument
6: Options and Time-Slice Practical Rationality
7: Options and Diachronic Tragedy
8: Replacing Diachronic Principles
9: Replacing Reflection Principles
10: Doxastic Justification, Reasoning, and Evidence-Gathering
11: Rationality and the Subject's Point of View