The retreat of reason
Subtitle: a dilemma in the philosophy of life
By: Ingmar Persson.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Life.; Thought and thinking.; Reason.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The nature of para-cognitive attitudes; title: Pain as a sensory quality; title: Pleasure as a sensory quality; title: Beyond hedonism; title: An analysis of desire; title: The concept of emotion; title: A typology of emotion; title: Part II: Reason and value; title: Introduction: subjectivism and objectivism; title: The structure of reasons : internalism; title: An objective requirement?; title: The desire relativity of value; title: The rationality of para-cognitive attitudes; title: Weakness of will; title: Representational mechanisms; title: Part III: Rationality and temporal neutrality; title: The notion of a temporal bias; title: The irrationality of the bias towards the near; title: The irrationality of the bias towards the future; title: The dilemma as regards temporal neutrality; title: Part V: Rationality and personal neutrality; title: Introduction: the bias towards oneself; title: Self and body; title: Psychological theories of our identity; title: Somatist theories of our identity; title: The identity of material bodies; title: The rational insignificance of identity and continuity; title: Self-concern and self-approval; title: Concern for and approval of others; title: Prudence : maximization or idealism?; title: The requirement of personal neutrality; title: Moral individualism : autonomy and agreement; title: The dilemma as regards personal neutrality; title: Part V: Rationality and responsibility; title: Predictability and the experience of freedom; title: Compatibilist freedom of action; title: Compatibilist freedom of will; title: Responsibility and desert; title: The deontological element of responsibility; title: The emotive genesis of desert; title: The dilemma as regards responsibility; title: Conclusion: the conflict between rationalism and satisfactionalism.