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Author: Bruno Verbeek Publisher: Springer London ISBN: 9781402054693 Category : Intention Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
The central theme of this volume is the relation between intentions and reasons. There are various ways in which the relevant questions could be introduced. One particularly fruitful way is by considering a crucial problem in the area of practical rationality.
Author: Bruno Verbeek Publisher: Springer London ISBN: 9781402054693 Category : Intention Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
The central theme of this volume is the relation between intentions and reasons. There are various ways in which the relevant questions could be introduced. One particularly fruitful way is by considering a crucial problem in the area of practical rationality.
Author: Bruno Verbeek Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1351906321 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
There are a number of problems in philosophy that seem to share a similar possible solution: 'Why do promises and contracts bind?', 'Why ought citizens and judges obey the law?' and 'Can we realize the gains to be made from cooperation?'. All three problems (as well as some others) share a possible solution in the form of rational internal commitment. Reasons and Intentions is a 'state-of-the-art' overview of the relevant positions on the possibility of such commitment, including critical ones. The introduction provides a survey of the central problem of the volume, 'how the will can bind itself and still be instrumental in nature', and the various positions which are further examined in the contributions. Addressing the question of the relation between intentions and action, the considerations which make an intention rational and how this translates into our conception of (moral) agency, this book brings together specially commissioned essays by the leading scholars in the field.
Author: George Pavlakos Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316240568 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 343
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This collection of new essays explores in depth how and why we act when we follow practical standards, particularly in connection with the authority of legal texts and lawmakers. The essays focus on the interplay of intentions and practical reasons, engaging incisive arguments to demonstrate both the close connection between them, and the inadequacy of accounts that downplay this important link. Their wide-ranging discussion includes topics such as legal interpretation, the paradox of intention, the relation between moral and legal obligation, and legal realism. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of legal philosophy, moral philosophy, law, social science, cognitive psychology, and philosophy of action.
Author: Alfred R. Mele Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195384261 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 194
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Introduction -- Conscious intentions and decisions -- Neuroscience and causes of action -- Neuroscience and free will -- Intentional actions and the alleged illusion of conscious will -- Proximal intentions and awareness reports -- The power of conscious will -- Conclusion.
Author: Berent En C Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 9780199204182 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 252
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'How We Act' presents a compelling picture of human action as part of the natural causal order. Berent Enç eschews any appeal to special capacities supposedly unique to rational agents, such as agent causation or irreducible acts of volition, and by appealing to analogous positions in epistemology and the theory of perception, shows why it is a mistake to subscribe to such capacities. His defense begins with a foundationalist definition of action that rests on a theory of basic acts, conceived here as derived from empirical studies of animal behaviour. Basic acts are complex units that agents acquire as part of their repertoire of things they can readily do - things with which practical syllogisms end.
Author: Robert Audi Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501733265 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 381
Book Description
For the first time, Robert Audi presents in Action, Intention, and Reason a full version of his theory of the nature, explanation, freedom, and rationality of human action. Ove the years Audi has set out in journal articles different aspects of a unified theory of action. This volume offers the unity of a single, seamless book with thirteen self-contained chapters, two of them previously unpublished, and a new overview of action theory and the book's contribution to it. The book is divided into four parts, each addressing a major problem area. The chapters in Part One describe the motivational grounds of action, explicate desire, belief, intention, and volition, and give a distinctive account of their interconnections. In the second part, Audi sets out a theory of the explanation of action and argues that actions can be both law-governed and performed for reasons. The third part provides an account of free action and its relation to causation and responsibility. Chapters in the fourth and final part construct an account of rational action and its connections with practical reasoning, self-deception, and weakness of will.
Author: Bruno Verbeek
Author: Bruno Verbeek
Author: George Pavlakos
Author: Michael Bratman
Author: Bruno Verbeek
Author: Berent Enç
Author: George Pavlakos
Author: George Pavlakos
Author: Alfred R. Mele
Author: Berent En C
Author: Robert Audi