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Author |
: David Sobel |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2009-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015080825535 |
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: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reasons for Action by : David Sobel
This volume contains eleven essays on practical reason by leading and emerging philosophers.
Author |
: Piotr Makowski |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2017-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351497176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351497170 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Praxiology and the Reasons for Action by : Piotr Makowski
This volume explores two traditions in practical philosophy: action theory, which concerns the nature of motivation for human action, and praxiology, the study of human action. By bringing different perspectives together, the volume strives to contribute to the international debate on theories of reasons for action as a philosophy of action.The volume consists of three main parts. The first part, "Reasons for Action," bridges the gap between reasons for action theories and praxiology. The second part of the volume, titled "Theories of Action," explores philosophical approaches to action. Finally, in the third part, "Applications," the contributors show several ways of applying praxiological ways of thinking and acting to the problems of reflection assessment, solving action incompleteness, and knowledge management.The ultimate goal of this volume is to broaden the scientific view of action: to establish a perspective on action that is permeated by moral theories on the one hand, and accounts focused on efficiency and economy of action on the other hand. This work is the newest volume in Transaction's Praxiology series.
Author |
: David Sobel |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 533 |
Release |
: 2009-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139474399 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139474391 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reasons for Action by : David Sobel
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 converged on the topic of reasons for action. This volume contains eleven essays on practical reason by leading and emerging philosophers. Topics include the differences between practical and theoretical rationality, practical conditionals and the wide-scope ought, the explanation of action, the sources of reasons, and the relationship between morality and reasons for action. The volume will be essential reading for all philosophers interested in ethics and practical reason.
Author |
: Robert Streiffer |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 162 |
Release |
: 2020-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000080254 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000080250 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action by : Robert Streiffer
Originally published in 2003, this book examines moral relativism and the author discusses the main arguments for Appraiser Relativism and Agent Relativism. The final chapter of the book discusses the implication of some recent developments in metaethics and develops a theory of reasons for action based on the way in which an action can be good as an alternative to the desire-based, agent-centred account critiqued in the earlier chapters.
Author |
: B.C. Postow |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2013-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789401728508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 940172850X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reasons for Action by : B.C. Postow
2 first-person point of view, I acknowledge these possible handicaps and try to overcome them. Other people may coherently judge that I am incapable of figuring out correctly what I rationally ought to do, or they may inform me of reasons of which I had heretofore been ignorant, or they may try to help me overcome intellectual hindrances. Like me, these people would be assuming that the goal is to identify what I really rationally ought to do. Nevertheless, we are concerned with reasons for the agent to act in a certain way, rather than with reasons, say, for someone to want it to be the case that the agent act. Thus to be a reason in our sense is to be a consideration which has an appropriate guiding role to play in the. agents deliberation. (An agent is guided by reasons if she determines what to do in light of the reasons. ) Suppose then that a nor mative theory says that it is supremely desirable, or that it rationally ought to be the case, that agents act in a way that maximizes the general utility, but that (since the general utility is never in fact maximized by those who pay attention to it) considerations of the general utility should play no role in the agents' deliberation. Such a theory would not be said to ascribe to agents a reason to maximize the general utility on our usage.
Author |
: Frederic Schick |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1991-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521403308 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521403306 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Action by : Frederic Schick
This is an important new book about human motivation, about the reasons people have for their actions. What is distinctively new about it is its focus on how people see or understand their situations, options, and prospects. By taking account of people's understandings (along with their beliefs and desires), Professor Schick is able to expand the current theory of decision and action. The author provides a perspective on the topic by outlining its history. He defends his new theory against criticism, considers its formal structure, and shows at length how it resolves many currently debated problems: the problems of conflict and weakness of will, Allais' problem, Kahneman and Tversky's problems, Newcomb's problem, and others. The book will be of special interest to philosophers, psychologists, and economists.
Author |
: Douglas W. Portmore |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 689 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190905323 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190905328 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism by : Douglas W. Portmore
"This handbook contains thirty-two previously unpublished contributions to consequentialist ethics by leading scholars, covering what's happening in the field today as well as pointing to new directions for future research. Consequentialism is a rival to such moral theories as deontology, contractualism, and virtue ethics. But it's more than just one rival among many, for every plausible moral theory must concede that the goodness of an act's consequences is something that matters even if it's not the only thing that matters. Thus, all plausible moral theories will accept both that the fact that an act would produce good consequences constitutes a moral reason to perform it and that the better that act's consequences the moral reason there is to perform it. Now, if this is correct, then much of the research concerning consequentialist ethics is important for ethics in general. For instance, one thing that consequentialist researchers have investigated is what sorts of consequences matter: the consequences that some act would have or the consequences that it could have-if, say, the agent were to follow up by performing some subsequent act. And it's reasonable to suppose that the answer to such questions will be relevant for normative ethics regardless of whether the goodness of consequences is the only thing matters (as consequentialists presume) or just one of many things that matter (as non-consequentialists presume)"--
Author |
: Ingmar Persson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2019-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192583666 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192583662 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reasons in Action by : Ingmar Persson
Ingmar Persson offers an original view of the processes of human action: deliberating on the basis of reasons for and against actions, making a decision about what to do, and from there implementing the decision in action in a way that makes the action intentional. Persson's analysis is mainly developed to suit physical actions, though how it needs to be modified to cover mental acts is also discussed. The interpretation of intentional action that is presented is reductionist in the sense that it does not appeal to any concepts that are distinctive of the domain of action theory, such as a unique type of agent-causation, or irreducible mental acts, like acts of will, volitions, decisions, or tryings. Nor does it appeal to any unanalyzed attitudes or states essentially related to intentional action, like intentions and desires to act. Instead, the intentionality of actions is construed as springing from desires conceived as physical states of agents which cause facts because of the way agents think of them. A sense of our having responsibility that is sufficient for our acting for reasons is also sketched out.
Author |
: M.C. Redondo |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2013-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789401591416 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9401591415 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reasons for Action and the Law by : M.C. Redondo
A focus on reasons for action and practical reason is the perspective chosen by many contemporary legal philosophers for the analysis of some central questions of their discipline. This book offers a critical evaluation of that approach, by carefully examining the empirical, logical and normative problems hidden behind the concepts of `reason for action' and `practical reasoning'. Unlike most other works in this field, it is a meta-theoretical study which analyses and compares how different theories use the notion of reason in their reconstruction of problems concerning issues such as normativity, the acceptance of norms, or the justification of judicial decisions. This book is directed primarily to scholars specializing in legal theory and concerned with the contribution practical philosophy can make to it, but it also contains important arguments and insights for all those interested in the controversy between legal positivists and their critics, in the theory of human action or in reason-based practical theories in general.
Author |
: Henry I. Langsam |
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Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1452237293 |
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: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pennsylvania Causes of Action by : Henry I. Langsam