Reasons for action /

What are our reasons for acting? Morality purports to give us these reasons, and so do norms of prudence and the laws of society. The theory of practical reason assesses the authority of these potentially competing claims, and for this reason philosophers with a wide range of interests have converge...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Sobel, David (Éditeur intellectuel), Wall, Steven, 1967- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Sujets:
Practical reason.
Ethics.
Raison pratique.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Handlung
Angewandte Ethik
Grund
Handelingstheorie.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction / David Sobel and Steven Wall
  • Intention, belief, and instrumental rationality / Michael E. Bratman
  • Reasons : practical and adaptive / Joseph Raz
  • The explanatory role of being rational / Michael Smith
  • Practical competence and fluent agency / Peter Railton
  • Practical conditionals / James Dreier
  • Authority and second personal reasons for acting / Stephen Darwall
  • Promises, reasons, and normative powers / Gary Watson
  • Regret and irrational action / Justin D. Arms and Daniel Jacobson
  • Mackie's motivational argument / Philip Clark
  • The truth in ecumenical expressivism / Michael Ridge
  • Voluntarist reasons and the sources of normativity / Ruth Chang.

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