Reasons - Brossura

Wiland, Eric

Brossura

ISBN 10: 144115308X ISBN 13: 9781441153081

Casa editrice: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2012

Riassunto

When we say we ‘act for a reason', what do we mean?

And what do reasons have to do with being good or bad?

Introducing readers to a foundational topic in ethics, Eric Wiland considers the reasons for which we act. You do things for reasons, and reasons in some sense justify what you do. Further, your reasons belong to you, and you know the reasons for which you act in a distinctively first-personal way. The book lays out and critically reviews some of the most popular contemporary accounts of how reasons can function in all these ways, accounts such as psychologism, factualism, hybrid theories, constitutivist theories, and finally Anscombean views of reasons. Reasons also includes a brief guide to further reading to help readers master this important topic in contemporary writing in ethics and the philosophy of action.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Eric Wiland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri - St Louis, USA.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 144115308X
• ISBN 13: 9781441153081
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 184