Reasons and Intentions

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26539-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-138-26539-X / 113826539X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-26539-4 / 9781138265394
Zustand	Neuware