Doing things for reasons / Rudiger Bittner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bittner, Rüdiger, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Act (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

People do things for reasons, but what are reasons 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.

Contents:

ONE: Desire and Belief

TWO: Sources of the Desire/Belief Thesis

THREE: Acting on Principle

FOUR: Doing Things for Reasons�The Idea

FIVE: The Explanatory Force of Reason Explanations

SIX: Any State or Event May Be a Reason for Which Somebody Does Something

SEVEN: Reasons for Which People Do Things Are Normally Not Qualities of the Agent

EIGHT: Reasons One Has for Doing Something

NINE: Are Reasons Internal? And Are They Normative?

TEN: Stronger Reasons

ELEVEN: Doing Things for a Purpose, Doing Things for Fun

TWELVE: A Rational Agent.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-195) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028672-5

1-281-94356-8

9786611943561

0-19-803283-8

OCLC:

309347207