Doing Things for Reasons

Rüdiger Bittner

ISBN 10: 0195143647 / ISBN 13: 9780195143645

Published by Oxford University Press Inc, US, 2001

About this Item

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. This is actually in complete opposition to the broad consensus in Western philosophy that reasons are items, or configurations of items in the mind (i.e psychological states). That consensus is firmly rejected by Bittner, who tries to retrieve a thoroughly worldly understanding of reasons. Elegantly written, this work is a substantial contribution to the fields of rationality, ethics, and action theory.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doing Things for Reasons
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, US
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195143647
• ISBN 13: 9780195143645
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.49W x 2.54H x 22.61D centimeters 15.49 centimeters width by 2.54 centimeters height by 22.61 centimeters depth
• Weight: 537 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Rüdiger Bittner is at University of Bielefeld.