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Spheres of Reason Simon Robertson (University of Southampton)

Spheres of Reason By Simon Robertson (University of Southampton)

Spheres of Reason by Simon Robertson (University of Southampton)


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Spheres of Reason comprises nine new articles on normativity. They make a timely and distinctive contribution to our understanding of how normative thought may or may not be unified across the spheres of actions, belief and feeling. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of normativity and the bearing it has on human thought.

Spheres of Reason Summary

Spheres of Reason: New Essays in the Philosophy of Normativity by Simon Robertson (University of Southampton)

Spheres of Reason comprises nine original essays on the philosophy of normativity, written by a combination of internationally renowned and up-and-coming philosophers working at the forefront of the topic. On one broad construal the normative sphere concerns norms, requirements, oughts, reasons, reasoning, rationality, justification, value. These notions play a central role in both everyday thought and philosophical enquiry; but there remains considerable disagreement about how to understand normativity - its nature, metaphysical and epistemological bases - and how different aspects of normative thought connect to one another. As well as exploring traditional and ongoing issues central to our understanding of normativity - especially those concerning reasons, reasoning and rationality - the volume's essays develop new approaches to and perspectives in the field. Notably, they make a timely and distinctive contribution to normativity as it features across each of the practical, epistemic and affective regions of thought, including the important issue of how normativity as it applies to action, belief and feeling may (or may not) be connected. In doing so, the essays engage topics within the philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, normative ethics and metaethics. With an editor's introduction providing a comprehensive and accessible background to the subject, Spheres of Reason is essential reading to anyone interested in the nature of normativity and the bearing it has on human thought.

Spheres of Reason Reviews

This volume features leading figures in the field, who all have something new to say. For those interested in foundational questions about normativity, reason, and rationality, whether from the perspectives of ethics, epistemology, or philosophy of mind and action, this volume has much to offer. * Timothy Chan, Mind *

About Simon Robertson (University of Southampton)

Simon Robertson is currently a Research Fellow on the AHRC funded research project Nietzsche & Modern Moral Philosophy at the University of Southampton, UK. His main research interests lie at the intersection of metaethics, practical reason and normative ethics, as well as Nietzsche. Before his current appointment, Simon completed his PhD at the University of St Andrews (2005), writing his doctoral thesis on moral obligation and normative reasons, and then taught for two years as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Normativity, Reasons, Rationality ; 2. Intention, Belief, Practical, Theoretical ; 3. The Unity of Reasoning? ; 4. Reasons and Rationality ; 5. The Unity and Diversity of Reasons ; 6. How Reasons for Action Differ from Reasons for Belief ; 7. Reasons and the New Non-Naturalism ; 8. The Unity of Reason - Kantian Perspectives ; 9. Setting Ends for Oneself Through Reason

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NPB9780199572939
9780199572939
0199572933
Spheres of Reason: New Essays in the Philosophy of Normativity by Simon Robertson (University of Southampton)
New
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2009-10-01
240
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