Reasons for action

Esterhazy, Paulus (2013): Reasons for action. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft

Abstract

Reasons for action are considerations in the light of which we act. But just what is it that we attribute to a person when we credit her with a good reason? What sort of entity is on our minds when we deliberate about what we have reason to do? This book examines this question and evaluates a number of approaches to the philosophy of reasons, including normative realism, psychologism and Humeanism. The second half of the book contains the defense of a theory of reasons influenced by the writings of Wilfrid Sellars and Robert Brandom. This theory is further developed in relation to a number of recent topics in action theory, including the Guise of the Good thesis, internalism and the normativity of reasons.

• Dokumententyp: Dissertationen (Dissertation, LMU München)
• Keywords: reasons normativity Wilfrid Sellars Robert Brandom David Hume
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie ; 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 190 Moderne westliche Philosophie
• Fakultäten: Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft
• Sprache der Hochschulschrift: Englisch
• Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: 1. Februar 2013
• 1. Bericht­erstatter:in: Hübner, Johannes