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Practical Knowledge - Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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Practical Knowledge - Selected Essays (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Moral Theory
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In the last forty years, action theory has revitalized moral
philosophy. Philosophers have explored the nature of agency, what
is involved in acting for a reason, how we know what we are doing,
the role of intention, desire, and belief in motivating action, and
more. At their most ambitious, philosophers have claimed that
action theory is the foundation of ethics. For rationalists or
constitutivists, the standards of practical reason derive from the
nature of agency as a functional or teleological kind. They are no
more mysterious than the standards for being a good clock or a good
heart, given the function of clocks and hearts. In this collection
of new and previously published essays, Kieran Setiya defends a
causal theory of intentional action on which it is explained by
knowledge in intention, a form of practical knowledge that
transcends prior evidence. Such knowledge rests on knowing how to
do the things we do. The theory is otherwise minimalist: agents
need not regard their reasons as good, put means to ends, or adopt
particular aims. It follows that we must reject the rationalist or
constitutivist approach: the nature of agency is too thin to
support the standards of practical reason. But the upshot is not
nihilism. Instead, the requirement of means-end coherence is
explained by the cognitive aspect of intention; and the standards
of practical reason are those of ethical virtue, applied to
practical thought.
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