Mechanisms that respond to reasons : an Aristotelian approach to agency

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December 2012
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Abstract
Are there any mechanisms in the natural world that respond to reasons – that are sensitive to considerations about what they should do? I think that the answer is that there are approximately 6.6 billion of them on this planet alone. This is not to say that there is nothing more to being a person than being a rational agent – a reasons-responder. My claim is just that to the extent that we are agents we are mechanisms that respond to reasons.
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Book Chapter
Publisher
Notre Dame University Press
Copyright (Published Version)
2012, University of Notre Dame Press
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Language
English
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Not peer reviewed
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Fran O'Rourke (eds.). Human Destinies : Philosophical Essays in Memory of Gerald Hanratty
ISBN
978-0-268-03734-5
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