Practical Reality is a lucid original study of the relation between the reasons why we do things and the reasons why we should. Jonathan Dancy maintains that current philosophical orthodoxy bowdlerizes this relation, making it impossible to understand how anyone can act for a good reason. By giving a fresh account of values and reasons, he finds a place for normativity in philosophy of mind and action, and strengthens the connection between these areas and ethics.
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"a deep, original, precise, careful and subtly argued work, one that makes an important contribution...required reading for anyone interested in the topic."--Ethics
"Practical Reality is a philosophically rich, densely argued, and (not coincidentally) blessedly short (less than 200 pp.) book."--The Review of Metaphysics
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Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading.
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This enquiry begins from a perfectly ordinary and unproblematic distinction, expressed in terms of reasons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pure cognitivism, psychologizing restatement, explanatory maxim, epistemic filter, psychologized explanation, disjunctive conception, sound deliberative route, purely cognitive state, transference rules, normative story, explanatory constraint, subjective duties, tripartite version, motivating reasons, motivating state, normative reasons, way that belief, being good reasons, normative explanation, reason for ring, relevant desire, objective duties, rational requirement, second disjunct Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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pure cognitivism, psychologizing restatement, explanatory maxim, epistemic filter, psychologized explanation, disjunctive conception, sound deliberative route, purely cognitive state, transference rules, normative story, explanatory constraint, subjective duties, tripartite version, motivating reasons, motivating state, normative reasons, way that belief, being good reasons, normative explanation, reason for ring, relevant desire, objective duties, rational requirement, second disjunct Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Principia Ethica by G. E. Moore on page 29, and Back Matter
- John Searle and his Critics (Philosophers and their Critics) by Ernest Lepore in Back Matter
- Creating the Kingdom of Ends by Christine M. Korsgaard in Back Matter
- Moral Reasons by Jonathan Dancy in Back Matter
- Midwest Studies N Philosophy: Causation and Causal Theories (Midwest Studies in Philosophy) by Peter A. French in Back Matter
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- Doing Things for Reasons by Rï¿1/2diger Bittner on 4 pages
- Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) by Russell Shafer-Landau on 4 pages
- Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Michael Smith in Front Matter, page 146, and page 153
- Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) by Russell Shafer-Landau in Front Matter, page 229, and page 285
- McDowell and His Critics (Philosophers and their Critics) by Cynthia Macdonald in Front Matter, page 139, and page 141
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