Practical Reasoning
Where the Action Is
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8076708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricio A Fernández (0000-0002-1666-9249, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 126 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 869-900 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1704 • E-ISSN: 1539-297X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/685998 |
| OpenAlex | W2467898047 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 21 |
Widespread conceptions of practical reasoning confront us with a choice between its practicality and its objectivity: between its efficacious, world-changing character and its accountability to objective rational standards. This choice becomes unnecessary, I argue, on an alternative view embodied by the thesis that the conclusion of practical reasoning is an action. I lay bare and challenge the assumptions underlying the rejection of that thesis and outline a defense of its picture of practical reasoning against common objections. On such a picture, practical reasoning provides a principle not externally imposed upon an action but rather constitutive of it
Accountability · Action (physics · Analytic reasoning · Cognitive science · Deductive reasoning · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Practical reason · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Law · Philosophy
The Instrumental Rule
The conclusion is an action
The Conclusion of Practical Reasoning
Practical cognition as volition
Representation in action
The Primacy of the Practical
Reasoning's relation to bodily action
Reasoning beyond belief acquisition
Who is a reasoner
All Reasons Are Fundamentally for Attitudes
Choice and Action in Aristotle
The Generality of Normative Thought
Purely Instrumental Agents Are Possible
The Unity of Normative Thought
The Unity of the Moral Domain
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |