The retreat of reason : a dilemma in the philosophy of life /
Persson, Ingmar.
Oxford : Clarendon Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-488) and index.
Part I: The nature of para-cognitive attitudes -- Pain as a sensory quality -- Pleasure as a sensory quality -- Beyond hedonism -- An analysis of desire -- The concept of emotion -- A typology of emotion -- Part II: Reason and value -- Introduction: subjectivism and objectivism -- The structure of reasons : internalism -- An objective requirement? -- The desire relativity of value -- The rationality of para-cognitive attitudes -- Weakness of will -- Representational mechanisms -- Part III: Rationality and temporal neutrality -- The notion of a temporal bias -- The irrationality of the bias towards the near -- The irrationality of the bias towards the future -- The dilemma as regards temporal neutrality -- Part V: Rationality and personal neutrality -- Introduction: the bias towards oneself -- Self and body -- Psychological theories of our identity -- Somatist theories of our identity -- The identity of material bodies -- The rational insignificance of identity and continuity -- Self-concern and self-approval -- Concern for and approval of others -- Prudence : maximization or idealism? -- The requirement of personal neutrality -- Moral individualism : autonomy and agreement -- The dilemma as regards personal neutrality --Part V: Rationality and responsibility -- Predictability and the experience of freedom -- Compatibilist freedom of action -- Compatibilist freedom of will -- Responsibility and desert -- The deontological element of responsibility -- The emotive genesis of desert -- The dilemma as regards responsibility -- Conclusion: the conflict between rationalism and satisfactionalism.
Life.
Thought and thinking.
Reason.