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Rationality Through Reasoning

Rationality Through Reasoning

Broome, John

Paperback

Series: Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy

PhilosophyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1118656059
ISBN13: 9781118656051
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: Aug 2 2013
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity, rationality and reasoning that differs significantly from much existing philosophical thinking.

  • Develops an original account of normativity, rationality and reasoning significantly different from the majority of existing philosophical thought
  • Includes an account of theoretical and practical reasoning that explains how reasoning is something we ourselves do, rather than something that happens in us
  • Gives an account of what reasons are and argues that the connection between rationality and reasons is much less close than many philosophers have thought
  • Contains rigorous new accounts of oughts including owned oughts, agent-relative reasons, the logic of requirements, instrumental rationality, the role of normativity in reasoning, following a rule, the correctness of reasoning, the connections between intentions and beliefs, and much else.
  • Offers a new answer to the 'motivation question' of how a normative belief motivates an action.

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