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  title info:
    title: Practical reality
  name:
    name part: Dancy, Jonathan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 187 pages)
  abstract: This text discusses why we do things and the reasons why we should. It maintains that current philosophical orthodoxy bowdlerises this relation, making it impossible to understand how anyone can act for a good reason.
  table of contents: 1. Reasons for Action -- 1. Good Reasons and those for which the Agent Acted -- 2. The Reason Why -- 3. Other Versions of the Motivating-Normative Distinction -- 4. Justification and Explanation -- 5. Four More Distinctions -- 6. Looking Back and Looking Forward -- Appendix. The History of the Distinction between Motivating and Normative Reasons -- 2. Reasons and Desires -- 1. Internalism and Desire-Based Reasons -- 2. Against Desire-Based Reasons -- Appendix. Korsgaard on Instrumental Reason -- 3. Reasons and Beliefs -- 1. Moral Reasons and Beliefs -- 2. Practical Reasons and Beliefs -- Appendix. On Detaching -- 4. The Theory of Motivating States -- 1. The Structure of a Complete Motivating State -- 2. Normativity and the Explanation of Action -- 5. Acting for a Good Reason -- 1. Psychologism: The Three-Part Story and the Normative Story -- 2. Against the Three-Part Story -- 3. Explanation by Appeal to Content -- 6. As I Believe -- 1. Because he Believes that p -- 2. The Role of Belief in the Psychologizing Restatement of a Reason -- 3. Factive and Non-Factive Explanations -- 7. Consequential Matters -- 1. Disjunctive Conceptions -- 2. Metaphysical Difficulties -- 3. Internalism and Desire-Based Reasons Again -- 4. Defusing Internalism -- 5. Degrees of Objectivity -- 8. How Many Explanations? -- 1. Explanation and Causal Explanation -- 2. Combining the Causal and the Normative -- 3. Further Causal Explanations -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
  note: Jonathan Dancy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Normativity (Ethics)
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Norme (Morale)
  subject:
    topic: Prise de décision
    topic: Aspect moral
  subject:
    topic: Morale
  subject:
    topic: Psychologie
  subject:
    topic: ethics (philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: psychology
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Mind & Body
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Normativity (Ethics)
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Praktische filosofie
  classification: BJ1012 .D363 2000eb
  classification: 128.2
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    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
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    record content source: CGU
    record creation date: 050203
    record change date: 20260318171628.6
    record identifier: in00005701117
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng