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Rationality through reasoning /
Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity, rationality and reasoning that differs significantly from much existing philosophical thinking. Develops an original account of no...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
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2013.
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| Colección: | Blackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Motivation; Rationality and reasoning; 1.2 This book; Metaphysics; Notes; 2: Ought; 2.1 The meaning of 'ought'; 2.2 Normative and non-normative oughts; Natural normativity; 2.3 Owned and unowned oughts; The propositional ought; Unowned oughts; Ownership and agency; Owned oughts are central; Enkrasia and defining the central ought; 2.4 Qualified and unqualified oughts; Requirements; Qualified oughts and the central ought; Notes; 3: Objective, Subjective and Prospective Oughts; 3.1 Sidgwick's View; 3.2 The need to decide.
- 3.3 Objective and prospective oughtsProspect consequentialism and the prospective ought; Outcome consequentialism and the objective ought; 3.4 Valuing prospects; 3.5 Summary; Notes; 4: Reasons; 4.1 Introduction and preliminaries; Explanation; 4.2 Pro toto reasons; 4.3 Pro tanto reasons; Defining a pro tanto reason; Counting in favour; Examples of weighing explanations; Buck-passing; Is there always a weighing explanation?; Permissible and obligatory; Reasons of other sorts; 4.4 Most reason; 4.5 Ownership of reasons; Nagel: agent-relative and agent-neutral reasons; Why Nagel's definition?
- Notes5: Responding to Reasons; 5.1 Rationality and responding to reasons; Responding correctly to reasons; 5.2 The quick objection; 5.3 Attitudinal reasons; Ignorance is no excuse; Responding correctly to attitudinal reasons; Conflicting attitudinal reasons; Example; There are no attitudinal reasons; 5.4 Sufficiency of reasons; Reasons of rationality; Rationality through worldly reasons; Notes; 6: Responding to Reason-Beliefs; 6.1 The Enkratic Condition; 6.2 Meeting your own standards; First objection; Objection to the Direct Enkratic Condition; Scanlon's condition; Scanlon's argument.
- 6.3 Responding correctly to P-beliefsAn example; Practical reasons; When you have no conflicting normative belief; Conclusion; 6.4 Conclusion; Notes; 7: Requirements; 7.1 Two sorts of requirement; 7.2 Property requirements; Interpretations; Logic; 7.3 Source requirements; Formalities; Source requirements are local; 7.4 Logic for requirements?; Axiom K; Inheritance; Logical Equivalents; Axiom D; Necessary Detachment; Transmission; 7.5 Ought; Deontic logic; Normative transmission; Notes; 8: Conditional Requirements; 8.1 Application and content.
- Properties corresponding to conditional requirements8.2 Conditional requirements of rationality; Jurisdiction; Scope; Inconsistent requirements; Asymmetry; Basing prohibitions; Alternative accounts of the asymmetry; Dyadic requirements; Diachronic requirements; The normativity of rationality; Notes; Appendix to Chapter 8; Theorem; Proof; 9: Synchronic Rationality; 9.1 Introduction and method; Method; Rationality supervenes on the mind: taking means to your end; Wide scope; Synchronic requirements; Psychological limitations; 9.2 Consistency; 9.3 Deduction; 9.4 Instrumental Rationality.