Sergio Tenenbaum: Rational Powers in Action

Cover: 9780198889564 | Rational Powers in Action | Sergio Tenenbaum | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance. Rational Powers in Action locates these features of the human condition at the heart of a new theory of instrumental rationality. Where many theories of rational agency focus on instantaneous choices between sharply defined outcomes, treating the temporally extended and partially open-ended character of action as an afterthought, this book argues that the deep structure of instrumental rationality can only be understood if we see how it governs the pursuit of long-term, indeterminate ends. These are ends that cannot be realized through a single momentary action, and whose content leaves partly open what counts as realizing the end. Sergio Tenenbaum argues that we need to focus on temporal duration and the indeterminacy of ends in intentional action, even to explain the rational governance of relatively simple actions. Theories of moment-by-moment preference maximization, or indeed any understanding of instrumental rationality on the basis of momentary mental items, cannot capture the fundamental structure of our instrumentally rational capacities. Tenenbaum provides a new theory of instrumental rationality as rationality in action.

Über den Autor

Sergio Tenenbaum is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the editor of Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives (Oxford, 2010), and the author of Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason (Cambridge, 2007) as well as numerous articles in ethics, practical rationality, moral psychology, and Kant's practical philosophy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Extended Action and Instrumental Rationality: The Structure of a Theory of Instrumental Rationality

2: Extended Theory of Rationality: Basic Tenets and Motivations

3: Pursuing Ends as the Fundamental Given Attitude

4: Indeterminate Ends and the Puzzle of the Self-Torturer

5: Future-Directed Intentions and the Theory of Instrumental Rationality

6: Persisting Intentions

7: Instrumental Virtues

8: Practical Judgment and its Corresponding Vices

9: Actions, Preferences, and Risk

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780198889564
ISBN-10:	0198889569
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Tenenbaum, Sergio
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press(UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Sergio Tenenbaum
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2023
Gewicht:	0,33 kg