Practical Reality

ISBN-13: 9780198241157 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 200 str.

Jonathan Dancy

Opis

Practical Reality is a lucid original study of the relation between the reasons why we do things and the reasons why we should. Jonathan Dancy maintains that current philosophical orthodoxy bowdlerizes this relation, making it impossible to understand how anyone can act for a good reason. By giving a fresh account of values and reasons, he finds a place for normativity in philosophy of mind and action, and strengthens the connection between these areas and ethics.

Recenzje

Practical Reality is a philosophically rich, densely argued, and (not coincidentally) blessedly short book ... while Dancy has wisely chosen to segregate in appendices some of his text that is not crucial to his line of argument, it would be unwise for readers to pass these over. They are very interesting indeed.

O autorze

Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading.