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Contrastive Reasons

Author : Justin Snedegar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198785933
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Contrastive Reasons written by Justin Snedegar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin Snedegar develops and defends contrastivism about reasons. This is the view that normative reasons are fundamentally reasons for or against actions or attitudes only relative to sets of alternatives. Simply put, reasons are always reasons to do one thing rather than another, instead of simply being reasons to do something, full stop. Work on reasons has become central to several areas of philosophy, but besides a couple of exceptions, this view has not been discussed. Contrastive Reasons makes the case that this is a mistake. Snedegar develops three kinds of arguments for contrastivism. First, contrastivism gives us the best account of our ordinary discourse about reasons. Second, contrastivism best makes sense of widespread ideas about what reasons are, including the idea that they favor the things they are reasons for and the idea that they involve the promotion of certain kinds of objectives. Third, contrastivism has attractive applications in different areas of normative philosophy in which reasons are important. These include debates in normative ethics about whether better than might be intransitive and debates in both epistemology and practical reasoning about the rationality of withholding or suspending belief and intention.

Contrastive Reasons

Author : Justin Snedegar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191089044
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Contrastive Reasons written by Justin Snedegar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin Snedegar develops and defends contrastivism about reasons. This is the view that normative reasons are fundamentally reasons for or against actions or attitudes only relative to sets of alternatives. Simply put, reasons are always reasons to do one thing rather than another, instead of simply being reasons to do something, full stop. Work on reasons has become central to several areas of philosophy, but besides a couple of exceptions, this view has not been discussed. Contrastive Reasons makes the case that this is a mistake. Snedegar develops three kinds of arguments for contrastivism. First, contrastivism gives us the best account of our ordinary discourse about reasons. Second, contrastivism best makes sense of widespread ideas about what reasons are, including the idea that they favor the things they are reasons for and the idea that they involve the promotion of certain kinds of objectives. Third, contrastivism has attractive applications in different areas of normative philosophy in which reasons are important. These include debates in normative ethics about whether better than might be intransitive and debates in both epistemology and practical reasoning about the rationality of withholding or suspending belief and intention.

Semantics for Reasons

Author : Bryan R. Weaver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019256885X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Semantics for Reasons written by Bryan R. Weaver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semantics for Reasons is a book about what we mean when we talk about reasons. It not only brings together the theory of reasons and natural language semantics in original ways but also sketches out a litany of implications for metaethics and the philosophy of normativity. In their account of how the language of reasons works, Bryan R. Weaver and Kevin Scharp propose and defend a view called Question Under Discussion (QUD) Reasons Contextualism. They use this view to argue for a series of novel positions on the ontology of reasons, indexical facts, the reasons-to-be- rational debate, moral reasons, and the reasons-first approach.

Reasons First

Author : Mark Schroeder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192638696
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Reasons First written by Mark Schroeder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last five decades, ethical theory has been preoccupied by a turn to reasons. The vocabulary of reasons has become a common currency not only in ethics, but in epistemology, action theory, and many related areas. It is now common, for example, to see central theses such as evidentialism in epistemology and egalitarianism in political philosophy formulated in terms of reasons. And some have even claimed that the vocabulary of reasons is so useful precisely because reasons have analytical and explanatory priority over other normative concepts-that reasons in that sense come first. Reasons First systematically explores both the benefits and burdens of the hypothesis that reasons do indeed come first in normative theory, against the conjecture that theorizing in both ethics and epistemology can only be hampered by neglect of the other. Bringing two decades of work on reasons in both ethics and epistemology to bear, Mark Schroeder argues that some of the most important challenges to the idea that reasons could come first are themselves the source of some of the most obstinate puzzles in epistemology: about how perceptual experience could provide evidence about the world, and about what can make evidence sufficient to justify belief. Schroeder shows that, along with moral worth, one of the very best cases for the fundamental explanatory power of reasons in normative theory actually comes from knowledge.

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 3

Author : Mark Timmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199685908
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 3 written by Mark Timmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, leading philosophers advance our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing normative theories to questions of how we should act and live well.

Further Insights into Contrastive Analysis

Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727780X
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Further Insights into Contrastive Analysis written by Jacek Fisiak and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-02-28 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a period of crisis in the 1960s, Contrastive Analysis has now regained its firm position, although in a different form and with broader goals. This collection of papers reflects the scope of research and the range of interest of linguists who are involved in contrastive linguistics research. The volume contains 35 contributions by 37 authors from 13 different countries and includes an Index of names and an Index of terms.

Persons and Causes

Author : Timothy O'Connor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190288434
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Persons and Causes written by Timothy O'Connor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind.

Agency, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility

Author : Andrei Buckareff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137414952
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Agency, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility written by Andrei Buckareff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in problems related to human agency and responsibility by philosophers and researchers in cognate disciplines. The present volume brings together original contributions by leading specialists working in this vital field of philosophical inquiry. The contents represent the state of the art of philosophical research on intentional agency, free will, and moral responsibility. The volume begins with chapters on the metaphysics of agency and moves to chapters examining various problems of luck. The final two sections have a normative focus, with the first of the two containing chapters examining issues related to responsible agency and blame and the chapters in the final section examine responsibility and relationships. This book will be of interest to researchers and students interested in both metaphysical and normative issues related to human agency.

Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004486631
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies presents readers with up-to-date research in corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies, showing the high degree of complementarity between the two fields in terms of research methodology, interests and objectives. Offering theoretical, descriptive and applied perspectives, the articles show how translation and contrastive approaches to grammar, lexis and discourse can be harmoniously combined through the use of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual corpora and how contrastive information needs to inform translation research and vice versa. The notion of contrastive linguistics adopted here is broad; thus, alongside comparisons of Malay/English idioms and the French imparfait and its English equivalents, there are articles comparing different varieties of French, and sign language with spoken language. This collection should be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics and translation studies. In addition, the section on corpus-based teaching applications will be of great value to teachers of translation and contrastive linguistics.

Petitionary Prayer

Author : Scott A. Davison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191075175
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Petitionary Prayer written by Scott A. Davison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the philosophical issues involved in the idea of petitionary prayer, where this is conceived as an activity designed to influence the action of the all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly good God of traditional theism. Theists have always recognized various logical and moral limits to divine action in the world, but do these limits leave any space among God's reasons for petitionary prayer to make a difference? Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation develops a new account of the conditions required for a petitionary prayer to be answered by employing the notion of contrastive explanation. With careful attention to recent developments in metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory, Scott A. Davison surveys the contemporary literature on this question. He considers questions about human freedom and responsibility in relation to different views of divine providence, along with the puzzles inherent in Christian teachings concerning petitionary prayer. Davison develops new challenges to the coherence of the idea of answered petitionary prayer based upon the nature of divine freedom, the limits of human knowledge, and the nature of those good things that require a recipient's permission before they can be given. He proposes new defences, building upon careful analysis of the shortcomings of previous proposals and clarifying the issues for future debate.

Normative Reasons

Author : Artūrs Logins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316513777
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Normative Reasons written by Artūrs Logins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first accessible, detailed overview of the debates about normative reasons, developing a new theory based on why-questions.

From Morality to Law and Back Again

Author : Michelle Madden Dempsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192604678
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book From Morality to Law and Back Again written by Michelle Madden Dempsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Gardner was one of the most prolific, widely read, and influential scholars working in philosophy of law. This book celebrates, explores, and develops themes of his work during his sixteen years as Professor of Jurisprudence at University of Oxford. Written by a team of contributors whose own work has been influenced by Gardner's and with whom he has worked closely, this book engages with many of the concepts, themes, and issues that were central to his philosophical work and outlook. It expands on his arguments, offers original rebuttals to some, and draws connections with parallel and emerging fields that have been influenced by his work. This is the first book-length treatment covering the entire range of his scholarship, and will serve as a handbook of sorts, for those scholars seeking to engage Gardner's work and make connections across the wide range of topics on which he has written. In particular, the volume comprises discussions of duties to try and succeed in relation to Hume's maxim that 'ought implies can'; the role of continuity, conservatism, and corrective justice in private law, the interrelations between wrongdoing, blame, punishment, and the justification of criminal law, justifications, excuses, and responsibility, the distinctiveness of the wrongs of rape and discrimination, as well as general jurisprudence and how it may, or may not, illuminate the questions of normativity and the nature of constitutions. The volume also engages with further concepts and questions addressed through the prism of Gardner's work, include Indigenous rights and law, Equity, corporate responsibility and the possibility of state crimes, and the nature, structure, and phenomenology of virtue. Together, the papers collected in this volume pay homage to the breadth of John Gardner's legal philosophy. The conversations begun, or continued, in this volume will continue to inform the contributors' future work, and thus increase the likelihood that John's body of work will have an ever greater influence on the future of legal philosophy.

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion

Author : Jonathan Kvanvig
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191009962
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion written by Jonathan Kvanvig and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it publishes exemplary papers in any area of philosophy of religion.

Straw Man Arguments

Author : Scott Aikin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350065021
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Straw Man Arguments written by Scott Aikin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the straw man fallacy and its deployment in philosophical reasoning. While commonly invoked in both academic dialogue and public discourse, it has not until now received the attention it deserves as a rhetorical device. Scott Aikin and John Casey propose that straw manning essentially consists in expressing distorted representations of one's critical interlocutor. To this end, the straw man comprises three dialectical forms, and not only the one that is usually suggested: the straw man, the weak man and the hollow man. Moreover, they demonstrate that straw manning is unique among fallacies as it has no particular logical form in itself, because it is an instance of inappropriate meta-argument, or argument about arguments. They discuss the importance of the onlooking audience to the successful deployment of the straw man, reasoning that the existence of an audience complicates the dialectical boundaries of argument. Providing a lively, provocative and thorough analysis of the straw man fallacy, this book will appeal to postgraduates and researchers alike, working in a range of fields including fallacies, rhetoric, argumentation theory and informal logic.

Free Will: Libertarianism, alternative possibilities, and moral responsibility

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415327299
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Free Will: Libertarianism, alternative possibilities, and moral responsibility written by John Martin Fischer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metaphilosophy and Free Will

Author : Richard Double
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355415
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Metaphilosophy and Free Will written by Richard Double and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is debate over the free will problem so intractable? In this broad and stimulating look at the philosophical enterprise, Richard Double uses the free will controversy to build on the subjectivist conclusion he developed in The Non-Reality of Free Will (OUP 1991). Double argues that various views about free will--e.g., compatibilism, incompatibilism, and even subjectivism--are compelling if, and only if, we adopt supporting metaphilosophical views. Because metaphilosophical considerations are not provable, we cannot show any free will theory to be most reasonable. Metaphilosophy and Free Will deconstructs the free will problem and, by example, challenges philosophers in other areas to show how their philosophical argumentation can succeed.

Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility

Author : Dana Kay Nelkin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191619426
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility written by Dana Kay Nelkin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana Kay Nelkin presents a simple and natural account of freedom and moral responsibility which responds to the great variety of challenges to the idea that we are free and responsible, before ultimately reaffirming our conception of ourselves as agents. Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility begins with a defense of the rational abilities view, according to which one is responsible for an action if and only if one acts with the ability to recognize and act for good reasons. The view is compatibilist?that is, on the view defended, responsibility is compatible with determinism?and one of its striking features is a certain asymmetry: it requires the ability to do otherwise for responsibility when actions are blameworthy, but not when they are praiseworthy. In defending and elaborating the view, Nelkin questions long-held assumptions such as those concerning the relation between fairness and blame and the nature of so-called reactive attitudes such as resentment and forgiveness. Her argument not only fits with a metaphysical picture of causation?agent-causation?often assumed to be available only to incompatibilist accounts, but receives positive support from the intuitively appealing Ought Implies Can Principle, and establishes a new interpretation of freedom and moral responsibility that dovetails with a compelling account of our inescapable commitments as rational agents.