Doing things for reasons

New York: Oxford University Press (2001)
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What exactly are the reasons we do things, and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a reason is a response to that state of affairs. Elegantly written, this work is a substantial contribution to the fields of rationality, ethics, and action theory.

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B105.A35.B55 2001

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0195143647   9780195143645

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Chapters

A Rational Agent.Rüdiger Bittner
Acting on Principle.Rüdiger Bittner
Any State or Event May Be a Reason for Which Somebody Does Something.Rüdiger Bittner
Are Reasons Internal? and Are They Normative?Rüdiger Bittner
Desire and Belief.Rüdiger Bittner
Doing Things for Reasons—The Idea.Rüdiger Bittner
Doing Things for a Purpose, Doing Things for Fun.Rüdiger Bittner
Reasons One Has for Doing Something.Rüdiger Bittner
Reasons for Which People Do Things Are Normally not Qualities of the Agent.Rüdiger Bittner
Sources of the Desire/Belief Thesis.Rüdiger Bittner
The Explanatory Force of Reason Explanations.Rüdiger Bittner

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