Social Agency and Practical Reasons: A Practice Account Contributor(s): Chwaszcza, Christine (Author) |
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ISBN: 363171985X ISBN-13: 9783631719855 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $59.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Philosophy | Political |
Dewey: 302 |
LCCN: 2017002419 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.00 lbs) 229 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - Modern |
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Publisher Description: Tying in with major traditions of ordinary language philosophy, the author presents an account of practical reasons in social agency that radically challenges the two mainstream accounts of practical reasons, the desire-belief model and the neo-Aristotelian sub-specie-boni model of practical reasons. She argues that the traditional focus on instrumental rationality and teleological reasoning ignores important types of non-purposive and agent-related reasons that play a major role in rule-based context of social agency and reciprocal interaction. The argument contributes to the analysis of promising and social conventions, reconstructions of acting together and shared intentions, and develops a new account of institutional and rule-based agency in terms of non-moral normativity. |