Sarah Bu
Biographic Data
| ID | 970239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Bu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Bu |
| SIGNATURE | BU S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Value of Humanity
Weakness of Will
My chief aim is to explain how someone can act freely against her own best judgment. But I also have a second aim: to defend a conception of practical rationality according to which someone cannot do something freely if she believes it would be better to do something else. These aims may appear incompatible. But I argue that practical reason has the capacity to undermine itself in such a way that it produces reasons for behaving irrationally. Wea…
Autonomy Reconsidered
Autonomy Reconsidered
Weakness of Will
My chief aim is to explain how someone can act freely against her own best judgment. But I also have a second aim: to defend a conception of practical rationality according to which someone cannot do something freely if she believes it would be better to do something else. These aims may appear incompatible. But I argue that practical reason has the capacity to undermine itself in such a way that it produces reasons for behaving irrationally. Wea…
The Value of Humanity
Autonomy Reconsidered
Weakness of Will
My chief aim is to explain how someone can act freely against her own best judgment. But I also have a second aim: to defend a conception of practical rationality according to which someone cannot do something freely if she believes it would be better to do something else. These aims may appear incompatible. But I argue that practical reason has the capacity to undermine itself in such a way that it produces reasons for behaving irrationally. Wea…
The Value of Humanity
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Analytic philosophy (2 works) · Contemporary philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 works) · Autonomy (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 work)