| Doing Things for Reasons Contributor(s): Bittner, Rudiger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195143647 ISBN-13: 9780195143645 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $89.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2001 Annotation: What exactly are the reasons we do things, and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a reason is a response to that state of affairs. Elegantly written, this work is a substantial contribution to the fields of rationality, ethics, and action theory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Mind & Body - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 128.4 |
| LCCN: 00058440 |
| Lexile Measure: 1280 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.62" W x 9.5" (1.19 lbs) 216 pages |
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| Publisher Description: What exactly are the reasons we do things, and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a reason is a response to that state of affairs. Elegantly written, this work is a substantial contribution to the fields of rationality, ethics, and action theory. |