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Mechanisms that respond to reasons : an Aristotelian approach to agency
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| Title: | Mechanisms that respond to reasons : an Aristotelian approach to agency | Authors: | Stout, Rowland | Permanent link: | http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5152 | Date: | Dec-2012 | Online since: | 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. | Type of material: | Book Chapter | Publisher: | Notre Dame University Press | Copyright (published version): | 2012, University of Notre Dame Press | Keywords: | Causal approach; Action; Aristotelian; Practical rationality | Other versions: | http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/staff/stout/Mechanisms that respond to reasons.pdf http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P03016 |
Language: | en | Status of Item: | Not peer reviewed | Is part of: | Fran O'Rourke (eds.). Human Destinies : Philosophical Essays in Memory of Gerald Hanratty | ISBN: | 978-0-268-03734-5 |
| Appears in Collections: | Philosophy Research Collection |
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