Doing Things for Reasons

Doing Things for Reasons
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 0198032838
ISBN-13 : 9780198032830
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Book Synopsis Doing Things for Reasons by : Rudiger Bittner

Download or read book Doing Things for Reasons written by Rudiger Bittner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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