Doing Things for Reasons - Hardcover

Bittner, Rudiger; Bittner, R. Diger; Bittner, R?diger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195143647 ISBN 13: 9780195143645

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

What exactly are the reasons we do things, 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. This is actually in complete opposition to the broad consensus in Western philosophy that reasons are items, or configurations of items in the mind (i.e psychological states). That consensus is firmly rejected by Bittner, who tries to retrieve a thoroughly worldly understanding of reasons. Elegantly written, this work is a substantial contribution to the fields of rationality, ethics, and action theory.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195143647
• ISBN 13: 9780195143645
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
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