Actions, Reasons and Reason

✍ Scribed by Marco Iorio (editor); Ralf Stoecker (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 190
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Through the whole history of mankind philosophers have taken pride in being reasonable agents. During the last decades Rüdiger Bittner, one of the internationally best renown german philosophers and winner of the Gottlob Frege award 2011, has developed a surprisingly different picture: We are much more part than master of the universe. The articles in the volume address this challenging view, illuminating and discussing it from various angles of practical philosophy including the aesthetics of film and theatre.
Authors: Ansgar Beckermann (Bielefeld), Rüdiger Bittner (Bielefeld), Raymond Geuss (Cambridge), Martina Herrmann (Dortmund), Marco Iorio (Potsdam), Susanne Kaul (Bielefeld), Jens Kulenkampff (Erlangen), Hajo Kurzenberger (Hildesheim), Kirsten Meyer (Berlin), Onora O'Neill (Cambridge), Ralf Stoecker (Bielefeld), Jay Wallace (Berkeley).

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
A Desirer’s Reason
Explaining Actions by Reasons
How to Improve On Bittner’s Proposal
Reasons, Reason-Giving and Explanation
How Much Can We Say about Practical Judgement?
A Modest Defense of Regret
Of Ducks and Men
Reasons for Bare Respect
Pacifism and Moral Judgment
The Metaphysical Need and the Utopian Impulse
Reasonable Movies for Reasonable Agents
Performing on the Media Stage
Index