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ISBN-10 :  0191070969 

ISBN-13 :  9780191070969

Author:   Andreas Muller 

Some things are reasons for us to perform certain actions. That it will spare you great pain in the future, for example, is a reason for you to go to the dentist now, and that you are already late for work is a reason for you not to read the next article in the morning paper. Why are such considerations reasons for or against certain actions? Constructivism offers an intriguing answer to this question. Its basic idea is often encapsulated in the slogan that reasons are not discovered but made by us. Andreas Müller elaborates this idea into a fully-fledged account of practical reasons, makes its theoretical commitments explicit, and defends it against some well-known objections. Constructing Practical Reasons begins with an examination of the distinctive role that reason judgements play in the process of practical reasoning. This provides the resources for an anti-representationalist conception of the nature of those judgements, according to which they are true, if they are true, not because they accurately represent certain normative facts, but because of their role in sound reasoning. On the resulting view, a consideration owes its status as a reason to the truth of the corresponding reason judgement and thus, ultimately, to the soundness of a certain episode of reasoning. Consequently, our practical reasons exhibit a kind of mind-dependence, but this does not force us to deny their objectivity.

Constructing Practical Reasons 1st Table of contents:

1. What is constructivism?
1.1 The basic idea
1.2 Constructivism and representation
1.3 Constructivism and truth
1.4 Constructivism and mind-dependence
1.5 Constructivism, explanation, and the grounding relation
1.6 Putting constructivism on the map
1.7 Plan of the book
2. Reasoning and reason judgements
2.1 Preliminaries
2.2 Conditions of adequacy
2.3 The normative guidance account
2.4 The inadequacy of alternative accounts
2.5 Reasoning and conceptual sophistication
2.6 Regress worries
2.7 Metareasoning
3. The nature of reason judgements
3.1 Preliminaries
3.2 Guidance and representation
3.3 Constructivism and expressivism
3.4 Extending the account
4. The truth about reasons
4.1 Constructivism, correspondence, and deflationism
4.2 Towards a compatible theory of truth
4.3 Wright on truth
4.4 Alethic pluralism
4.5 Truth and sound reasoning
4.6 Constructing reasons
5. Correct reasoning
5.1 Correct and incorrect reasoning
5.2 Correctness and reasons
5.3 Correctness without reasons
5.4 The constitutive rules account of correct reasoning
5.5 Developing the account
5.6 How to determine the rules of reasoning
5.7 The status of the rules of reasoning
6. Mind-dependence and objectivity
6.1 The varieties of mind-dependence
6.2 Siding with Euthyphro
6.3 Fallibility and universality
6.4 Modal robustness

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