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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Reasons for action"”.
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Moral relativism and reasons for action
… motivated by the thought that there are always reasons to comply with one's moral requirements, but that the desires to which such reasons would have to correspond are too capricious for there to be any universal moral requirements. In Chapter Two, I argue that the moral universalist is free to …
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Bernard Williams on Coercion and Reasons for Action
Understanding the nature of reasons for action and, specifically, how one can come to understand and criticize another’s reasons for action can help us to better understand what possible outcomes we can hope for when engaging another agent. Understanding reasons for action may even give us some …
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Bernard Williams on Coercion and Reasons for Action
Understanding the nature of reasons for action and, specifically, how one can come to understand and criticize another’s reasons for action can help us to better understand what possible outcomes we can hope for when engaging another agent. Understanding reasons for action may even give us some …
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How moral knowledge motivates: a practical reason account
… and act morally we recognise and respond to reasons that are there whether we recognise them or not. This is the claim defended in this thesis. It has two aspects. The first is that acts of moral judgement aspire, sometimes successfully, to moral knowledge. This is moral cognitivism. The …
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What Does Value Matter? The Interest-Relational Theory of the Semantics and Metaphysics of Value
"Value and reasons for action are often cited by rationalists and moral realists as providing a desire-independent foundation for normativity. Those maintaining instead that normativity is dependent upon motivation often deny that anything called '""value"" or ""reasons"" exists. According to the …
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Reasons and causes
… this thesis to consider the question whether the reasons for action in terms of the agent's wants, beliefs and motives constitute causally necessary and sufficient conditions for his intention to act, and subsequent action. I begin by outlining the contributions of various philosophers towards an …
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Complicity
… these theories fail to explain complicity in the foregoing contexts, and cannot justify needed efforts to hold individuals accountable for unwitting contributions to systemic wrongs and injustices. In response to this gap, my dissertation defends a novel reconceptualization of complicity as …
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The particular and the general : essays at the interface of ethics and epistemology
… relatively recent view which holds that, because reasons for action and belief are irreducibly context-dependent, the traditional quest for a general theory of what one ought to do or believe is doomed for failure. In making these claims, particularists assume a general framework according to …
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The (ir)relevance of truth to rationality
It is possible to act for a reason. We do it all the time. You might have brought her medicine for the reason that she is ill. He might go to the store to get milk. Edmund might skate in the middle of the pond because the ice in the middle of the pond is thin. What must be true of us, and of the …
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Final Judicial Authority in the European Union: A Normative Framework
… to have the final say over an issue brought before it. It develops a framework for thinking about it, and it applies this framework to the jurisdictional disputes between the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the apex courts of the Member States. The first part of the thesis …
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Power-Conferring Norms and Law's Normative Guidance
… legal order is the consequence of a complex interaction of reciprocal forces between norms and human activities. This thesis argues against the prevailing view that characterizes law’s normative significance as giving independent reasons for action and provides a more comprehensive account of the …
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Just Doing My Job: Normative Dimensions of Social Roles
… justice to this experience of roles’ normative force. I argue that doing so prompts revision to orthodox views of role-occupants’ reasons for action, blameworthiness, and responsibility for structural injustice. In Chapter One, I develop a new account of how social roles generate normative …
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Radical Evil and Responsibility in Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophical Anthropology
… theoretical to practical reason, thinking about action in terms of cause and effect gives way to a posited freedom wherein we can give reasons for action and make meaningful changes in the world. At the same time, Kant’s claim that human beings are radically evil ‘by nature’ seems to problematize …
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Knowing Better, Reasoning Together
… first two chapters of this dissertation I argue for the novel conclusion that it is harder to have moral knowledge than non-moral knowledge due to the fact that moral beliefs have more practically at stake. More specifically, in chapter 1 I argue that moral beliefs are subject to a higher …