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Contextuality in Practical Reason (Hardcover)
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Contextuality in Practical Reason (Hardcover)
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A. W. Price explores the varying ways in which context is relevant
to our reasoning about what to do. He investigates the role of
context in our interpretation and assessment of practical
inferences (especially from one intention to another), practical
judgements (especially involving the term "ought"), inferences from
conditional "ought"-judgements, and the ascription to agents of
reasons for action. Practical inferences are subject not to a
special logic, but to a teleology that they share with action
itself. Their inherent purpose is to forward an end of action, and
not to be logically valid. Practical judgments are commonly to be
understood relatively to an implicit context of goals and
circumstances. Apparently conflicting or imprudent "oughts" can
show up as true once they are interpreted contextually, with an eye
to different ends, and different aspects of a situation. This makes
acceptable certain patterns of inference that would otherwise
license counter-intuitive conclusions. What reasons for action are
ascribable to an agent depends both on the context of action, and
on the deliberative context. Facts tell in favor of actions against
a background of particular circumstances, and in ways whose
relevance to an ascription to an agent of a reason for action
depends upon the perspective within which the ascription is made.
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