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Social Agency and Practical Reasons: A Practice Account

Social Agency and Practical Reasons: A Practice Account

Hardcover

PhilosophyAnthropology

ISBN10: 363171985X
ISBN13: 9783631719855
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jun 30 2017
Pages: 229
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Tying in with major traditions of ordinary language philosophy, the author presents an account of practical reasons in social agency that radically challenges the two mainstream accounts of practical reasons, the desire-belief model and the neo-Aristotelian sub-specie-boni model of practical reasons. She argues that the traditional focus on instrumental rationality and teleological reasoning ignores important types of non-purposive and agent-related reasons that play a major role in rule-based context of social agency and reciprocal interaction. The argument contributes to the analysis of promising and social conventions, reconstructions of acting together and shared intentions, and develops a new account of institutional and rule-based agency in terms of non-moral normativity.

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