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Contextuality in practical reason / A.W. Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, A. W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Situation ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 208 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A. W. Price explores the varying ways in which context is relevant to our reasoning about what to do. He investigates the role of context in our interpretation and assessment of practical inferences (especially from one intention to another), practical judgements (especially involving the term 'ought'), inferences from conditional 'ought'-judgements, and the ascription to agents of reasons for action. Practical inferences are subject not to a special logic, but to a teleology thatthey share with action itself. Their inherent purpose is to forward an end of action, and not to be logically valid
- Contents:
- Practical inferences
- Practical judgements
- Reasoning with conditionals
- Reasons for action.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-85319-4
- 9786611853198
- 0-19-153864-7
- OCLC:
- 234303814
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