Practical Reality
Practical Reality is about the relation between the reason why we do things and the reasons why we should. It maintains that current philosophical orthodoxy bowdlerizes this relation, making it impossible to understand how anyone can act for a good reason.In order to understand this, Dancy claims, we have to abandon current conceptions of the reasons why we act (our 'motivating' reasons) as mental states of ourselves. Belief/desire explanations of action, or purely cognitive accounts in terms of beliefs alone, drive too great a wedge between the normative and the motivational. Instead, we have to understand a motivating reason as the sort o…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-151961-1
- EAN: 9780191519611
- Produktnummer: 30849193
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 10'532 KB
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Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading.
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