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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Motivating Reasons"”.
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Moral Responsibility and Motivating Reasons: On the Epistemic Condition for Moral Blameworthiness
… if and only if she had right and outweighing motivating reasons to avoid wrongdoing that were explicit or at least consciously accessible (through what I call “deliberative attunement”), and she had these reasons either at the time of the act, or at some earlier time in which she failed to …
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Why did they do it? Moral sensibilities, motivating reasons, and degrees of moral blame in culpable homicide
Humans have a long evolutionary history of violence. The psychological mechanisms underlying aggression can be viewed as “solutions” (albeit undesirable solutions) to any one of a number of adaptive problems that exist in social life. Sometimes that aggression takes the form of the killing of one …
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An Essay on the Ontology of Reasons
… recent anti-psychologistic accounts of agential reasons are unsatisfactory. I also argue that psychologistic accounts are false. Then I develop and defend an anti-psychologistic, propositionalist theory of reasons whereby agential reasons are propositions. I also develop a corresponding …
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How We Do What We Do: Joint Action and Spontaneity
… requirements together. Chapter 3 develops the reasons account of joint action, which appeals to normative group reasons, in order to meet the challenge. Grasping a group reason forces agents to occupy the co-agential point of view because the group reason indicates who is to act and what they …
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An evaluation of contracting out government services in a privatisation context in the Sultanate of Oman
… at the author's organisation. It looks at the motivating factors, implementation difficulties and the overall effectiveness of contracted out projects in achieving the organisation's objectives in terms of the anticipated benefits. <br/><br/>The research is carried out by means of an …
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Antenatal clinic: Using ethnographic methods to listen to the voices of pregnant adolescents
Aim: This research aims to explore the motivating reasons and external influences that affect pregnant adolescents’ reasons for attending an antenatal clinic. Background: Pregnancy during adolescence has been researched from perceived ‘poor’ decision making during pregnancy and postnatal …