Repression, Integrity and Practical Reasoning

Zusatztext Recommended by Choice Informationen zum Autor GARY JAEGER Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, USA, previously he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Klappentext Repression receives little attention in philosophical literature. This study of cases of repression that inhibit an agent's deliberative access to his reasons argues that an agent cannot correctly deliberate about a reason to overcome repression as if he did so, he would already have overcome repression and so would have no reason to do so. Zusammenfassung Repression receives little attention in philosophical literature. This study of cases of repression that inhibit an agent's deliberative access to his reasons argues that an agent cannot correctly deliberate about a reason to overcome repression as if he did so! he would already have overcome repression and so would have no reason to do so. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements The Oligarchic Soul Normative Repression Repression and External Reasons The Limits of Non-Relative Views The Limits of Relative Internalism Reasons, Rationality and Agency Objections and Rejoinders Conclusion: The Scope of Relative Externalism Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Jaeger, G Jaeger, G. Jaeger, Gary Jaeger, JAEGER GARY
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2012
• EAN: 9780230368507
• ISBN: 978-0-230-36850-7
• No. of pages: 178
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