
Normativity, Rationality and Reasoning
Selected Essays
John Broome(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 30. September 2021
Book
Hardback
210 pages
978-0-19-882484-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is a selection of Broome's recent papers on normativity, rationality, and reasoning. It covers a variety of topics such as the meanings of 'ought', 'reason', and 'reasons'; the fundamental structure of normativity and the metaphysical priority of ought over reasons; the ownership - or agent-relativity - of oughts and reasons; the distinction between rationality and normativity; the notion of rational motivation; what characterizes the human activity of reasoning, and what is the role of normativity within it; the nature of preferences and of reasoning with preferences; and others. These papers extend the work presented in his book Rationality Through Reasoning but there is little overlap between their content and the book's. They develop further some themes and arguments from the book, and answer some questions that the book left unanswered.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-882484-8 (9780198824848)
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Person
John Broome took a PhD in Economics from MIT, followed by an MA in Philosophy from Bedford College, University of London. He was a lecturer in Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, then a Reader and later Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. He became a Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews in 1996, and then White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, from 2000 to 2014. He is a regular visitor at the Australian National University, where he is an Honorary Professor.
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Emeritus White's Professor of Moral PhilosophyEmeritus White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford
Content
Introduction
Part A. Normativity
1: Reason fundamentalism and what is wrong with it.
2: Given reasons and giving reasons
3: The first normative 'reason'
4: A linguistic turn in the philosophy of normativity?
5: Williams on ought
Part B. Rationality
6: Rationality versus normativity
7: Motivation
Part C. Reasoning
8: Normativity in reasoning
9: A linking belief is not essential for reasoning
10: Reasoning with preferences?
Part A. Normativity
1: Reason fundamentalism and what is wrong with it.
2: Given reasons and giving reasons
3: The first normative 'reason'
4: A linguistic turn in the philosophy of normativity?
5: Williams on ought
Part B. Rationality
6: Rationality versus normativity
7: Motivation
Part C. Reasoning
8: Normativity in reasoning
9: A linking belief is not essential for reasoning
10: Reasoning with preferences?