Practical Knowledge
Subtitle: Selected Essays
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780190462925
Subjects: Act (philosophy); Intentionality (philosophy)
Description: In this collection, Kieran Setiya explores the place of agency in ethics, arguing for a causal theory of intentional action on which it is understood through the knowledge embodied in our intentions, and against the rationalist project of deriving norms of practical reason from the nature of the will.