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Reasons and Purposes - Human Rationality and the Teleological Explanation of Action (Paperback, New ed)
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Reasons and Purposes - Human Rationality and the Teleological Explanation of Action (Paperback, New ed)
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People do things for reasons. But philosophers have disagreed
sharply about how 'reasons explanations' of actions actually work
and hence about their implications for human freedom and autonomy.
The dominant view in contemporary philosophy is the (Humean) idea
that the beliefs and desires that constitute our reasons for acting
simply cause us to act as we do. Fred Schueler seeks to replace
such causal views, arguing that they leave out two essential
elements of these explanations. Reasons explanations are inherently
teleological in the sense that the agent's reasons always explain
the purpose for which he acted. They are also inherently normative
since it is always possible that an agent's reasons for doing
something are not good reasons. Schueler argues that causal
accounts of reasons explanations make no sense of either of these
features; he argues instead for an account based on practical
deliberation, our ability to evaluate the reasons we accept.
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