The Retreat of Reason Part 3 ppsx

The Retreat of Reason Part 3 ppsx

The Retreat of Reason Part 3 ppsx

... to the agent’s reasons. But we have seen that we must carefully keep apart the explanatory concept of a reason the reason why’—and the concept of an apparent reason ‘somebody’s reason : the ... stance on the issue of the reality/irreality of value; therefore, it seems reasonable to lump them together as forms of anti-realism or irrealism. What they disagree about i...

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The Retreat of Reason Part 1 pps

The Retreat of Reason Part 1 pps

... Predictability and the Experience of Freedom 37 9 32 . Compatibilist Freedom of Action 38 5 33 . Compatibilist Freedom of Will 39 3 34 . Responsibility and Desert 409 35 . The Deontological Element of Responsibility ... fit neither of these ends, but they may all the same have at least the function of mitigating the sensation of pain. There is experimental eviden...

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The Retreat of Reason Part 2 pot

The Retreat of Reason Part 2 pot

... with the ability to trace effects (upon themselves) to causes in the physical activities of other beings, but without the ability to see these activities as the outcomes of the mental states of the other ... by the activity of something external (rather than in the sense of positively seeing its activity as being uncaused by the activity of all other things). Th...

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The Retreat of Reason Part 4 pot

The Retreat of Reason Part 4 pot

... that the basis of the bisection “has rather to do with the source of the want”, this source being evaluations in the case of rational desires (1975: 208). From the perspective of the subjective theory ... for maximization theories like the repugnant conclusion. Weakness of Will 1 73 On the other hand, she insists on the possibility of knowingly violating the...

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The Retreat of Reason Part 5 potx

The Retreat of Reason Part 5 potx

... diagnosis of the absurdity of life, though suggestive, fails in the end. So much for the diagnosis of the feeling of the futility and meaninglessness of life. Supposing now that the removal of the ... recollections of the same event. Thus, the explanation of the bias towards the near past is similar to the explanation of the bias towards the near...

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The Retreat of Reason Part 6 pps

The Retreat of Reason Part 6 pps

... to depend upon the identity of physical things. I have earlier in this chapter suggested that it is a matter of the identity of the whole body rather than of the identity of parts of it, such as ... in the beginning (if the ‘shell’ is composed of only a tiny portion of the metal). The conflict is due to the fact that the identity conditions of things of...

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The Retreat of Reason Part 7 pps

The Retreat of Reason Part 7 pps

... and there is no other kind of thing that matches both of these aspects of the notion of being the subject of our consciousness. This enables us to answer quickly the question of whether the O-bias ... and Approval of Others 33 3 desires of others be satisfied for their own sake. Instead it constitutes an instrumental concern that builds on considerations of what the...

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The Retreat of Reason Part 8 pptx

The Retreat of Reason Part 8 pptx

... first to articulate these elements and then to explore how they fare in the light of requirements of reason, like RU. How they fare in the light of these requirements is a matter of fact that has ... any agreements. In this part of the book, I have to some extent tested the rationality of the second idea of autonomy, and in the next part, I shall to some extent do...

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The Retreat of Reason Part 9 pdf

The Retreat of Reason Part 9 pdf

... explanatory function. For the construct of the agent itself as a cause cannot explain why some of the reasons rather than other ones that the agent had led to action, nor why they led to action at any particular ... case of the O-basis, the gap is between the much fuller representation of our own present situation compared to that of others (the P-bias), and its exten...

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The Retreat of Reason Part 10 potx

The Retreat of Reason Part 10 potx

... 457–8 compatibilism 38 6–406, 409 and acting otherwise 38 8–92 concern 94–5, 237 –8 for oneself 238 , 32 1 3 for others 33 2–5 sympathetic 32 1 3, 33 3–5 conjoined (Siamese) twins 288–9 constructivism 36 7 contempt 93 continuity ... 209–10, 211–12, 2 13, 214, 216, 217, 218, 219–21, 231 –2, 244 n–5n, 255–7, 262, 2 63, 265, 266–7, 269 n, 272, 2 73, 275, 281, 281 n, 282, 31 0–11, 31...

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