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The Domain of Reasons (Hardcover)
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The Domain of Reasons (Hardcover)
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This book is about normativity and reasons. By the end, however,
the subject becomes the relation between self, thought, and world.
If we understand normativity, we are on the road to understanding
this relation.
John Skorupski argues that all normative properties are reducible
to reason relations, so that the sole normative ingredient in any
normative concept is the concept of a reason. This is a concept
fundamental to all thought. It is pervasive (actions, beliefs, and
sentiments all fall within its range), primitive (all other
normative concepts are reducible to it), and constitutive of the
idea of thought itself. Thinking is sensitivity to reasons. Thought
in the full sense of autonomous cognition is possible only for a
being sensitive to reasons and capable of deliberating about them.
In Part II of the book Skorupski examines epistemic reasons, and
shows that aprioricity, necessity, evidence, and probability, which
may not seem to be normative at all, are in fact normative concepts
analysable in terms of the concept of a reason. In Part III he
shows the same for the concept of a person's good, and for moral
concepts including the concept of a right. Part IV moves to the
epistemology and metaphysics of reasons. When we make claims about
reasons to believe, reasons to feel, or reasons to act we are
asserting genuine propositions: judgeable, truth-apt contents. But
these normative propositions must be distinguished from factual
propositions, for they do not represent states of affairs.
So Skorupski's ambitious theory of normativity has broad and deep
implications for philosophy. It shows how reflection on the logic,
epistemology, and ontology of reasons finally leads us to an
account of the interplay of self, thought, and world.
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