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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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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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Deliberation and Practical Reason
1998Abstract In Book 3 of the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle treats a restricted and technical notion of deliberation, which makes it unnecessary for him to consider anything but technical or so¬ called productive examples of practical reason. It is not surprising in the context of Book 3 that deliberation is never of ends but always of means.
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Reasoning in Practical Situations
2004An automatic reasoning system usually consists of the following major components: (1) a formal language that represents knowledge, (2) a semantics that defines meaning and truth value in the language, (3) a set of inference rules that derives new knowledge from existing knowledge, (4) a memory that stores knowledge, and (5) a control mechanism that ...
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Legal Reasoning as Practical Reason
2011AbstractUnderstanding morality and understanding legal, especially judicial, reasoning each require attention to the distinctions between reason and feelings, and between making and doing. In clarifying these, this chapter considers the denial of objective goods by ‘Critical Legal Studies’; the confusion induced by ‘game’ or ‘decision’ or ‘rational ...
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