Reasons of One's Own - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754640639 ISBN 13: 9780754640639

Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Practical reasoning in contemporary Western societies is characterized by an unprecedented degree of idiosyncrasy and demands of personal authenticity. This has resulted from the decline of traditional moral authorities, the rise of individualistic lifestyles, increasing multiculturalism and rapid technological advance. These developments have given rise to reflection on the notion of 'reasons of one's own', an examination of the intelligibility of reasons that are closely connected to a particular agent, and recognized as such by others, although not shared by them.This book presents a range of investigative essays on the concept of reasons of one's own by leading authors from all relevant philosophical areas of expertise. Contents: 1. Introduction: The problem of reasons of one's own, Marc Slors, Maureen Sie and Bert van den Brink; 2. Reasons of one's own: a problem? A first exploration, Kirsten Endres and Maureen Sie; 3. Being bound by reasons: practical identity and the authority of self-legislation, Theo van Willigenburg; 4. Identity-constitutive reasons and narrative justification, Albert W. Musschenga; 5. Democratic reasoning and reasons of one's own, Bert van den Brink; 6. Anticipating reasons of one's own, Jan Bransen; 7. The case for reasons of self-concern, Marya Schechtman; 8. On being one's own person, Lynne Rudder Baker; 9. Reasons, causes, and 'brute' mental causes, Graham Macdonald; 10. Self-knowledge and the first-person, Cynthia Macdonald; 11. Folk psychology and idiosyncratic reasons for action, Marc Slors; Index.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754640639
• ISBN 13: 9780754640639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 210
• Editor: Sie Maureen, Slors Marc, Brink Bert Van Den