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Mechanisms that respond to reasons : an Aristotelian approach to agency

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Stout, Rowland 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5152
Date Issued
December 2012
Date Available
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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.
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...

Web versions
http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/staff/stout/Mechanisms that respond to reasons.pdf
http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P03016
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Part of
Fran O'Rourke (eds.). Human Destinies : Philosophical Essays in Memory of Gerald Hanratty
ISBN
978-0-268-03734-5
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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