The Retreat of Reason Part 9 pdf
The Retreat of Reason Part 9 pdf
... other things, an account of the reasons upon which the agent acted”
( 199 5: 184; cf. 2000: ch. 5). The agent-cause provides a “mechanism of control that
‘hooks up’, so to speak, the agent’s reasons ... conditions” ( 199 1: 277).²² Of course, as
Foster himself concedes ( 199 1: 2 79) , the notion of there being a type of event whose
intrinsic nature makes it logically impo...
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... 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 evidence indicating that, if the stimulation of other ... respect of its
being the bearer of the quality of pleasure, enjoyment implies that other aspects of the
sensation are the object only of peripheral attention.⁷
This...
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... 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 ... beliefs” ( 199 0: 64), but differs from me in denying that the content of this response (and of the emotion)
can be construed in terms of the content of t...
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... 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 ... thoughts—that make up the whole content of the agent’s reasons—as
reasons (for the agent) is to say that they are related to the agent’s desires, that they have at
least th...
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... 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 ( 197 5: 208). From the perspective of the subjective theory ... succession).
They are kept apart in the sense of not being brought together in episodic thought and
not in the sense of belonging to different compartments o...
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... 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 ... here having to
make the effort of reversing the temporal order (17 39 40/ 197 8: 431).
The Notion of a Temporal Bias 199
nature that this combination of t...
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... as the primitive subjects of predication” ( 199 1: ii. 4), some
of these being organic. In the case of these objects, their discreteness and unity are not
constituted by their being alive (for then ... capable of locomotion.
⁵ Cf. Olson, who equates the life of an organism with the sum of the metabolic activities the organism’s parts are
caught up in” ( 199 7: 136).
Psy...
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... 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 ... in the process ( 199 0: 276).
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CONCERN FOR AND
APPROVAL OF OTHERS
I HAVE argued that the O-bias—to the effect that oneself rather than others be benefited—
is neith...
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... 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 ... has the sanction of this point of view from what we find (un)attractive merely as a result of the
“egoistic, hedonistic side of our natures” ( 198 2: 496 ).
fulfilment of...
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... S. ( 199 3): The Metaphysics of Identity over Time, London: Macmillan.
Olson, Eric, T. ( 199 7): The Human Animal, New York: Oxford UP.
—— ( 199 9): ‘There is no Problem of the Self’, Journal of Consciousness ... Instrumental Reason , in Cullity and Gaut ( 199 7a).
—— ( 199 8): ‘Motivation, Metaphysics, and the Value of the Self ’, Ethics, 1 09: 49 66.
Kraut, Richard ( 197...