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Being Realistic About Reasons
T. M. Scanlon
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Description for Being Realistic About Reasons
Hardback. Is what we have reason to do a matter of fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved, how can we know it, and how do reasons motivate and explain action? In this concise and lucid book T. M. Scanlon offers answers, with a qualified defense of normative cognitivism-the view that there are normative truths about reasons for action. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications; that we would have no way of knowing what they are; and that the role of reasons in motivating and explaining action could not be explained if accepting a conclusion about reasons for action were a kind of belief. Scanlon answers the first of these objections within a general account of ontological commitment, applying to mathematics as well as normative judgments. He argues that the ... Read more
T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications; that we would have no way of knowing what they are; and that the role of reasons in motivating and explaining action could not be explained if accepting a conclusion about reasons for action were a kind of belief. Scanlon answers the first of these objections within a general account of ontological commitment, applying to mathematics as well as normative judgments. He argues that the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199678488
SKU
V9780199678488
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About T. M. Scanlon
T. M. Scanlon received a BA from Princeton in 1962 and a PhD from Harvard in 1968, in between studying for a year at Brasenose College, Oxford. He taught at Princeton from 1966 until 1984, and at Harvard since that time. Scanlon is the author of many articles in moral and political philosophy, and of three books: What We Owe ... Read more
Reviews for Being Realistic About Reasons
a powerful and superbly written short book
Barry Maguire, The Times Literary Supplement
T. M. Scanlon's new book is essential reading for anybody interested in metaethics and practical rationality.
Laura Schroeter and François Schroeter, Ethics
a much needed challenge to all forms of non-cognitivism.
Bruce Russell, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Scanlon delivers new insights ... Read more
Barry Maguire, The Times Literary Supplement
T. M. Scanlon's new book is essential reading for anybody interested in metaethics and practical rationality.
Laura Schroeter and François Schroeter, Ethics
a much needed challenge to all forms of non-cognitivism.
Bruce Russell, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Scanlon delivers new insights ... Read more