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The Domain of Reasons (Paperback)
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The Domain of Reasons (Paperback)
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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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