Doing Things for Reasons - Couverture rigide

Bittner, Rüdiger

 
9780195143645: Doing Things for Reasons
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195143647 ISBN 13 : 9780195143645
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2001

Synopsis

What exactly are the reasons we do things, and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a reason is a response to that state of affairs. This is actually in complete opposition to the broad consensus in Western philosophy that reasons are items, or configurations of items in the mind (i.e psychological states). That consensus is firmly rejected by Bittner, who tries to retrieve a thoroughly worldly understanding of reasons. Elegantly written, this work is a substantial contribution to the fields of rationality, ethics, and action theory.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

What exactly are the reasons we do things, and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a reason is a response to that state of affairs. This is actually in complete opposition to the broad consensus in Western philosophy that reasons are items, or configurations of items in the mind (i.e psychological states). That consensus is firmly rejected by Bittner, who tries to retrieve a thoroughly worldly understanding of reasons. Elegantly written, this work is a substantial contribution to the fields of rationality, ethics, and action theory.

Revue de presse

thought-provoking and imaginative. (Krister Bykvist, Times Literary Supplement)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195143647
ISBN 13 
9780195143645
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
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