Repression, Integrity and Practical Reasoning
1st Edition
Published on 19. June 2012
IX, 169 pages
978-1-137-01786-4 (ISBN)
Description
Repression receives little attention in philosophical literature. This study of cases of repression that inhibit an agent's deliberative access to his reasons argues that an agent cannot correctly deliberate about a reason to overcome repression as if he did so, he would already have overcome repression and so would have no reason to do so.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Reflowable
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IX, 169 p.
File size
1,88 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-01786-4 (9781137017864)
DOI
10.1057/9781137017864
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GARY JAEGER Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, USA, previously he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Content
Acknowledgements The Oligarchic Soul Normative Repression Repression and External Reasons The Limits of Non-Relative Views The Limits of Relative Internalism Reasons, Rationality and Agency Objections and Rejoinders Conclusion: The Scope of Relative Externalism Notes Bibliography Index
