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Reasons /
When we say we ''act for a reason'', what do we mean? And what do reasons have to do with being good or bad? Introducing readers to a foundational topic in ethics, Eric Wiland considers the reasons for which we act. You do things for reasons, and reasons in some sense justify wha...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London, England ; New York :
Continuum,
2012.
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| Series: | Continuum ethics series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- FC; Halftitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 What is a reason?; Philosophy and reason; Case study: Plato; Modern reactions; Reason and reasons; Reasons for action; Overview; 2 Psychologism: desires; Introduction; Davidson; Psychologism and normativity; Williams and internal reasons; Hypotheticalism; 3 Psychologism: beliefs; The anti-sufficiency point; The anti-necessity point; Reasons as ideal beliefs; Arguments against all forms of psychologism; 4 Deontic, value-based, and primitivist accounts; Factualism; The challenge to factualism; The argument from error; Dancy.
- Factualism, the explanatory requirement, and agency5 Hybrid theories; Building normative reasons out of motivating reasons; Building motivating reasons out of normative reasons; The identity thesis; 6 Constitutivism; Activities and aims; Hedonism; Action and knowledge; The knowledge constraint; Constitutivism and knowledge; Shmaction and shmagency; Constitutivism and error; The magic of constitutivism; 7 Anscombean views; Why?; The structure of action; Naïve action theory; Actions and facts; Keeping score; Activity and normativity; Conclusion; Notes; Further reading; Bibliography; Index.