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9780195143645: Doing Things for Reasons
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ISBN 10: 0195143647 ISBN 13: 9780195143645
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2001

Sinossi

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.

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Recensione

thought-provoking and imaginative. (Krister Bykvist, Times Literary Supplement)

Product Description

What exactly are the reasons we do things, and how are they related to the resulting actions? Rudiger 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 (ie, psychological states). That consensus is firmly rejected by Bittner, who tries to retrieve a worldly understanding of reasons.

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Editore
OUP USA
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0195143647
ISBN 13 
9780195143645
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
216
Contatto del produttore
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