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Zusatztext Price's book... brings together the flourishing philosophical topics of context sensitivity and reasoning, and in doing so it provides deep and far-reaching insights into the nature of practional rationality... the ideas in this book are bound to fascinate anyone working in the field, and to give direction to future research that will certainly prove to be most exciting. It is these stimulating ideas that make this book a very rewarding read. Informationen zum Autor A. W. Price is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London. He taught previously at York and Oxford. He is the author of Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle (OUP 1989, revised edition 1997) and Mental Conflict (Routledge 1995). Klappentext A. W. Price explores the varying ways in which context is relevant to our reasoning about what to do. He investigates the role of context in practical inferences, practical judgements, and the ascription of reasons for action. This original, wide-ranging book will reward the attention of philosophers working in ethical theory and related areas. Zusammenfassung A. W. Price explores the varying ways in which context is relevant to our reasoning about what to do. He investigates the role of context in practical inferences, practical judgements, and the ascription of reasons for action. This original, wide-ranging book will reward the attention of philosophers working in ethical theory and related areas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introductory Overview 1: Practical Inferences 2: Practical Judgements 3: Reasoning with Conditionals 4: Reasons for Action
