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Mechanisms that respond to reasons : an Aristotelian approach to agency
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Date Issued
2012-12
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2013-12-11T10:07:04Z
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.
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.
Type of Material
Book Chapter
Publisher
Notre Dame University Press
Copyright (Published Version)
2012, University of Notre Dame Press
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Journal
Fran O'Rourke (eds.). Human Destinies : Philosophical Essays in Memory of Gerald Hanratty
ISBN
978-0-268-03734-5
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