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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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Aristotle on the Distinctness of Practical Reason
Aristotle famously holds that practical reason is different from other kinds of reason, including theoretical and technical reason. But in virtue of what is it different? On a standard interpretation, which I call the “Objects View,” Aristotle holds that
C. M. M. Olfert
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A Foundation for the Conception of Law as Practical Reason [PDF]
This essay discusses a foundation of the connection argued to exist between law and practical reason that has proved to be highly influential and debated in contemporary legal philosophy - Alexy's.
Stefano Bertea
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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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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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