Kinds of Reasons
An Essay in the Philosophy of Action
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 May 2013
- ISBN 9780199680580
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 216x140x12 mm
- Weight 264 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Understanding human beings and their distinctive rational and volitional capacities requires a clear account of such things as reasons, desires, emotions, and motives, and how they combine to produce and explain human behaviour. Maria Alvarez presents a fresh and incisive study of these concepts, centred on reasons and their role in human agency.
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Understanding human beings and their distinctive rational and volitional capacities is one of the central tasks of philosophy. The task requires a clear account of such things as reasons, desires, emotions and motives, and of how they combine to produce and explain human behaviour. In Kinds of Reasons, Maria Alvarez offers a fresh and incisive treatment of these issues, focusing in particular on reasons as they feature in contexts of agency. Her account builds on some important recent work in the area; but she takes her main inspiration from the tradition that receives its seminal contemporary expression in the writings of G.E.M. Anscombe, a tradition that runs counter to the broadly Humean orthodoxy that has dominated the theory of action for the past forty years. Alvarez's conclusions are therefore likely to be controversial; and her bold and painstaking arguments will be found provocative by participants on every side of the debates with which she engages. Clear and directly written, Kinds of Reasons aims to stake out a distinctive position within one of the most hotly contested areas of contemporary philosophy.
'clear and thoughtful ... offers a serious challenge to the standard view of reasons'
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Reasons
Reasons, Kinds, Ontology
Motivation and Desires
Desires and Motivating Reasons
Beliefs and Motivating Reasons
The Explanation of Action
