Being realistic about reasons

Being realistic about reasons

by Scanlon, Thomas

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Is what we have reason to do a matter of fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved, how can we know it, and how do reasons motivate and explain action? In this concise and lucid book T.M. Scanlon offers answers, with a qualified defence of normative cognitivism - the view that there are normative truths about reasons for action.

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  • Full title :Being realistic about reasons / T.M. Scanlon.

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Is what we have reason to do a matter of fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved, how can we know it, and how do reasons motivate and explain action? In this concise and lucid book T.M. Scanlon offers answers, with a qualified defence of normative cognitivism - the view that there are normative truths about reasons for action.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2014.

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  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:019100314X, 9780191003141
  • oclc:ocn868276258
  • LC Classification:BC177
  • Dewey Decimal:128.33

Table of Contents

Introduction : Reasons fundamentalism -- Metaphysical objections -- Motivation and the appeal of expressivism -- Epistemology and determinateness -- Reasons and their strength.

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Subjects

Act (Philosophy) Action (Philosophie) Ethik Normativismus PHILOSOPHY -- Movements Praktische Vernunft Raison reason

Writers

Scanlon, Thomas

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