Rationality requires that we intend the means that we believe are necessary for achieving our ends. Instrumental Rationality explores the formulation and status of this requirement of means-ends coherence. In particular, it is concerned with understanding what means-ends coheren…
The "Me" generation has justified itself by appealing to social scientists who see selfishness as the only rational basis for action. However, the author of this treatise recognizes an innate sense of social commitment and explores our emotional reactions to guilt, lying, and ot…
The "Me" generation has justified itself by appealing to social scientists who see selfishness as the only rational basis for action. However, the author of this treatise recognizes an innate sense of social commitment and explores our emotional reactions to guilt, lying, and ot…
Atheism Considered is a systematic presentation of challenges to the existence of a higher power. Rather than engage in polemic against a religious worldview, C.M. Lorkowski charitably refutes the classical arguments for the existence of god, pointing out flaws in their underlyi…
"Ingmar Persson offers an original view of the processes of human action: deliberating on the basis of reasons for and against actions, making a decision about what to do, and from there implementing the decision in action in a way that makes the action intentional. Persson's an…
"This book examines the relationship between magic, philosophy and the investigation of nature in presocratic Greece. Did the presocratic thinkers, often praised for their rejection of the supernatural, still believe in gods and the divine and the efficacy of magical practices? …
Max Weber-Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung