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Practical Reasons and Reasonable Practice: The Case of Euthanasia in The Netherlands
Journal of Social Issues, 1996Since the early 1970s the issue of euthanasia has been intensely debated in The Netherlands. Through these debates knowledge about medical practices involving the end of life was no longer confined to medical or legal quarters, but became public to a large extent. Following public opinion changes, the legal reaction to euthanasia changed.
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Reasons, practical reason, and practical reasoning
Ratio, 2004AbstractThe concepts of reasons as supporting elements, of practical reason as a capacity, and of practical reasoning as a process are central in the theory of action. This paper provides a brief account of each. Several kinds of reason for action are distinguished.
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Practical Reasoning and Practical Reasons in Hume
Hume Studies, 2008Hume's discussion of the role of reason in the practical sphere is often read to imply two broad, negative claims: first, that passions and actions can (at most) only be regarded as responsive to reasons in so far as they are either in agreement with or contrary to the instrumental implications of other passions or desires. And second, that there is no
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Evaluating Practical Reasoning
Synthese, 2007zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Rules of Meaning and Practical Reasoning
Synthese, 1998Can there be rules of language which serve both to determine meaning and to guide speakers in ordinary linguistic usage, i.e., in the production of speech acts? We argue that the answer is no. We take the guiding function of rules to be the function of serving as reasons for actions, and the question of guidance is then considered within the framework ...
Kathrin Glüer, Peter Pagin
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Practical Reason Standards, Advice, and Practical Reason
2011This chapter considers two sorts of cases in which it might seem as though an adviser is evaluating things from within the advisee's system of standards even though this system conflicts with her own. Based on these cases, the chapter offers a positive argument in favor of the author's contention that there is no mode of sincere advice in which the ...
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Argumentation for Practical Reasoning
2014We first present a short introduction illustrating how argumentation could be viewed as an universal mechanism humans use in their practical reasoning where by practical reasoning we mean both commonsense reasoning and reasoning by experts as well as their integration. We then present logic-based argumentation employing implicit or explicit assumptions.
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PRACTICAL REASONING AND EMOTION
2004AbstractThis article discusses emotion as an element of practical rationality. One approach links emotion to evaluative judgment and applies some variant of the usual standards of rational belief and decision making. An alternative, “paradigm scenarios” approach would appeal to the causal history of an emotion as determining rationality.
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