Umfang:
x, 229 Seiten
,
24 cm
Ausgabe:
First edition
ISBN:
9780198746935
Inhalt:
Rationality requires that we intend the means that we believe are necessary for achieving our ends. Instrumental Rationality explores the formulation and status of this requirement of means-ends coherence. In particular, it is concerned with understanding what means-ends coherence requires of us as believers and agents, and why.0Means-ends coherence is a genuine requirement of rationality and cannot be explained away as a myth, confused with a disjunction of requirements to have, or not have, specific attitudes. Nor is means-ends coherence strongly normative, such that we always ought to be means-ends coherent. A promising strategy for assessing why this requirement should exist is to consider the constitutive aim of intention. Just as belief has a constitutive aim (truth) that can explain some of the theoretical requirements of consistency and coherence governing beliefs, intention has a constitutive aim (here called "controlled action") that can explain some of the requirements of consistency and coherence governing intentions. We can therefore better understand means-ends coherence by understanding the constitutive aims of both of the attitudes governed by the requirement, intention, and belief
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780191809149
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Brunero, John Instrumental rationality Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780191809149
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Rationalismus
;
Teleologie
;
Absicht
;
Handlung
;
Kohärenz
;
Rationalismus
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