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Reasons without Persons: Rationality, Identity, and Time
Brian Hedden
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Description for Reasons without Persons: Rationality, Identity, and Time
Hardcover. Brian Hedden defends a radical view about rationality, personal identity, and time. He argues that what it is rational to do should not depend on your past beliefs or actions, which are not part of your current perspective on the world. His impersonal approach holds that what rationality demands of you is solely determined by your evidence. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Brian Hedden defends a radical view about the relationship between rationality, personal identity, and time. On the standard view, personal identity over time plays a central role in thinking about rationality. This is because, on the standard view, there are rational norms for how a person's attitudes and actions at one time should fit with her attitudes and actions at other times, norms that apply within a person but not across persons. But these norms are problematic. They make what you rationally ought to believe or do depend on facts about your past that aren't part of your current perspective ... Read more
Brian Hedden defends a radical view about the relationship between rationality, personal identity, and time. On the standard view, personal identity over time plays a central role in thinking about rationality. This is because, on the standard view, there are rational norms for how a person's attitudes and actions at one time should fit with her attitudes and actions at other times, norms that apply within a person but not across persons. But these norms are problematic. They make what you rationally ought to believe or do depend on facts about your past that aren't part of your current perspective ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198732594
SKU
V9780198732594
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99-14
About Brian Hedden
Brian Hedden was an undergraduate at Princeton University, graduating with a degree in philosophy in 2006. He received his doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012, after which he was a junior research fellow at Oxford University until 2014. Since 2015 he has been a lecturer at the University of Sydney.
Reviews for Reasons without Persons: Rationality, Identity, and Time
The book is a masterful work of analystic philosophy.
Matthew Kopec, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
This is a well-written, ambitious book that ties disparate strands of philosophy together into a complete picture of what is required for an agent to be ... To my knowledge, this is something only Derek Parfit has been successful at tackling thus far. ... Read more
Matthew Kopec, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
This is a well-written, ambitious book that ties disparate strands of philosophy together into a complete picture of what is required for an agent to be ... To my knowledge, this is something only Derek Parfit has been successful at tackling thus far. ... Read more