Reasons for action / edited by David Sobel and Steven Wall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sobel, David, editor.

Wall, Steven, 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Practical reason.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / David Sobel and Steven Wall

Intention, belief, and instrumental rationality / Michael E. Bratman

Reasons : practical and adaptive / Joseph Raz

The explanatory role of being rational / Michael Smith

Practical competence and fluent agency / Peter Railton

Practical conditionals / James Dreier

Authority and second personal reasons for acting / Stephen Darwall

Promises, reasons, and normative powers / Gary Watson

Regret and irrational action / Justin D. Arms and Daniel Jacobson

Mackie's motivational argument / Philip Clark

The truth in ecumenical expressivism / Michael Ridge

Voluntarist reasons and the sources of normativity / Ruth Chang.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-08856-4

1-107-19888-7

1-283-12734-2

1-139-09228-6

9786613127341

1-139-09087-9

1-139-09177-8

1-139-09279-0

1-139-08997-8

0-511-72018-1

OCLC:

729167133