Reasons for action
By: edited by David Sobel and Steven Wall.
Contributors: Sobel, David.; Wall, Steven, 1967-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521877466
Subjects: Practical reason; Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / David Sobel and Steven Wall; title: Intention, belief, and instrumental rationality / Michael E. Bratman; title: Reasons : practical and adaptive / Joseph Raz; title: The explanatory role of being rational / Michael Smith; title: Practical competence and fluent agency / Peter Railton; title: Practical conditionals / James Dreier; title: Authority and second personal reasons for acting / Stephen Darwall; title: Promises, reasons, and normative powers / Gary Watson; title: Regret and irrational action / Justin D. Arms and Daniel Jacobson; title: Mackie's motivational argument / Philip Clark; title: The truth in ecumenical expressivism / Michael Ridge; title: Voluntarist reasons and the sources of normativity / Ruth Chang.