Reasons for action

Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft - Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU vor 13 Jahren

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Reasons for action are considerations in the light of which we act.
But just what is it that we attribute to a person when we credit
her with a good reason? What sort of entity is on our minds when we
deliberate about what we have reason to do? This book examines this
question and evaluates a number of approaches to the philosophy of
reasons, including normative realism, psychologism and Humeanism.
The second half of the book contains the defense of a theory of
reasons influenced by the writings of Wilfrid Sellars and Robert
Brandom. This theory is further developed in relation to a number
of recent topics in action theory, including the Guise of the Good
thesis, internalism and the normativity of reasons.