Reasons and Intentions (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Verbeek, Bruno

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There are a number of problems in philosophy that seem to share a similar possible solution: 'Why do promises and contracts bind?', 'Why ought citizens and judges obey the law?' and 'Can we realize the gains to be made from cooperation?'. All three problems (as well as some others) share a possible solution in the form of rational internal commitment. Reasons and Intentions is a 'state-of-the-art' overview of the relevant positions on the possibility of such commitment, including critical ones. The introduction provides a survey of the central problem of the volume, 'how the will can bind itself and still be instrumental in nature', and the various positions which are further examined in the contributions. Addressing the question of the relation between intentions and action, the considerations which make an intention rational and how this translates into our conception of (moral) agency, this book brings together specially commissioned essays by the leading scholars in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351906319
• Artikelnr.: 49355498

Autorenporträt

Bruno Verbeek is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Reasons and intentions: an introduction, Bruno Verbeek
Friends, reasons and morals, David Gauthier
Rethinking rationality, Edward F. McClennen
Acting on an intention, Claire Finkelstein
Minimally constrained maximisation: an outline, Joe Mintoff
Temptation revisited, Michael E. Bratman
How rules affect practical reasoning, Scott J. Shapiro
Intentions and 2 models of human action, Thomas Pink
Intending for autonomous reasons, Govert den Hartogh
Intentions and plans in decision and game theory, Martin van Hees and Olivier Roy
Bibliography
Index.