Determined by Reasons: A Competence Account of Acting for a Normative Reason

ISBN-13: 9780815394334 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 190 str.

Susanne Mantel

Opis

This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason and clarifies the relation between the normative reason that an agent acts for and his or her motivating reasons.

Spis treści

1. Introduction   Part I: Acting for a Normative Reason   2. The Causal Account and the Role of Dispositions   3. The Normative Competence Account   4. Two Ways of Acting for a Normative Reason   5. Conclusion of Part I   Part II: Squaring Normative Reasons with Motivating Reasons   6. The Identity Thesis   7. Worldly Reasons in the Deliberative Realm   8. Worldly Reasons in the Explanatory Realm    9. Worldly Reasons and the Psychological Account of Action    10. Conclusion of Part II and General Reflections

O autorze

Susanne Mantel is an assistant at Saarland University. She works on metaethics, action theory, and epistemology with a focus on reasons and normativity. Her articles have been published in Erkenntnis, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Explorations, and Synthese. She received the Wolfgang-Stegmüller-Preis and the Lauener Prize for Up and Coming Philosophers.