Practical Reasoning by Robert Audi

Practical Reasoning by Robert Audi

The author of this treatise sets out an original theory of what practical reasoning is and how it bears on the explanation and rationality of human actions. Part 1 contains extensive discussion of Aristotle, Hume and Kant. Their views are compared, and their conceptions of reason and action formulated. Part 2 engages contemporary issues related to their views and brings together problems in philosophy of mind, such as the nature of intention, belief and inference with topics in ethics, including moral responsibility, the relation between reason and morality, and the ethical appraisal of actions influenced by self-deception or weakness of will. Professor Audi proposes a conception of rational action that links it with justified belief and thereby connects action theory with the theory of knowledge. He approaches practical reasoning, and indeed agency in general, with both psychological realism and philosophical adequacy in mind, and with an eye to integrating the common-sense framework of practical reasoning into a plausible cognitive psychology.

Charles J. Audi is Robert Audi. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Mach Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. The Structure of Justification (1993), Action, Intention, and Reason (1993), Moral Knowledge and Ethical Character (Oxford, 1997), and The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (2nd Ed., 1999) are only a few of his publications.

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ISBN 13	9780415070461
ISBN 10	0415070465
Title	Practical Reasoning
Author	Robert Audi
Series	Problems Of Philosophy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1991-11-21
Number of pages	240
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