Doing Things for Reasons

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Doing Things for Reasons

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Zusammenfassung

What exactly are the reasons we do things, and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a reason is a response to that state of affairs. This work is a contribution to the fields of rationality, ethics, and action theory.

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Doing Things for Reasons by Rudiger Bittner

What exactly are the reasons we do things, and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a reason is a response to that state of affairs. This is actually in complete opposition to the broad consensus in Western philosophy that reasons are items, or configurations of items in the mind (i.e psychological states). That consensus is firmly rejected by Bittner, who tries to retrieve a thoroughly worldly understanding of reasons. Elegantly written, this work is a substantial contribution to the fields of rationality, ethics, and action theory.

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thought-provoking and imaginative* Krister Bykvist, Times Literary Supplement *
Rudiger Bittner ist Professor fur Philosophie an der Universitat Bielefeld.
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ISBN 13 9780195143645
ISBN 10 0195143647
Titel Doing Things for Reasons
Autor Rudiger Bittner
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsjahr 2001-08-09
Seitenanzahl 216
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