Brute rationality normativity and human action
This book presents an account of normative practical reasons and the way in which they contribute to the rationality of action. Rather than simply 'counting in favour of' actions, normative reasons play two logically distinct roles: requiring action and justifying action. The distinction b...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2004
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- What would an adequate theory of rationality be like?
- Practical rationality, morality, and purely justificatory reasons
- The criticism from internalism about practical reasons
- A functional role analysis of reasons
- Accounting for our actual normative judgments
- Fitting the view into the contemporary debate
- Two concepts of rationality
- Internalism and different kinds of reasons
- Brute rationality