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Human Action, Deliberation and Causation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
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Human Action, Deliberation and Causation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 77
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There is an interesting and far-reaching disagreement between Smith
and Frederick Stoutland. In his 'The Real Reasons' Stoutland argues
that one of the mistakes that turned the belief-desire model of
action into the 'received view' is the underlying commitment to the
idea that there is an underlying unity to all action explanations.
According to Stoutland the unity is no deeper than the superficial
fact that actions are responses of agents to the world, and the
challenge for the philosophy of action is to make sense of that
fact without falling victim to the un fruitful assumption that
reasons should be understood as the normative content of
determinate representational inner states of agents. Stoutland
suggests an alternative according to which reasonable agents
possess the know how to respond appropriately to the normative
import of the external situations they find themselves in. These
situations are, Stout land claims, the real reasons. Stoutland
raises an important issue. If beliefs and desires should be
understood as reasons, as introducing normative constraints that de
serve respect, it seems we are bound to distinguish between on the
one hand the content of our beliefs and desires and on the other
hand their objects. Moreover, it seems we have good reasons to
believe that the content of our beliefs and desires derives its
normative import qua normative import from the objects of our
beliefs and desires.
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