Practical Reasoning: Where the Action Is

Ethics 126 (4):869 - 900 (2016)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Widespread conceptions of practical reasoning confront us with a choice between its practicality and its objectivity: between its efficacious, world-changing character and its accountability to objective rational standards. This choice becomes unnecessary, I argue, on an alternative view embodied by the thesis that the conclusion of practical reasoning is an action. I lay bare and challenge the assumptions underlying the rejection of that thesis and outline a defense of its picture of practical reasoning against common objections. On such a picture, practical reasoning provides a principle not externally imposed upon an action but rather constitutive of it.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,593

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Knowledge, Practical Reasoning and Action.Peter Baumann - 2012 - Logos and Episteme 3 (1):7-26.
Anscombe and Practical Knowledge of What Is Happening.Thor Grünbaum - 2009 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 78 (1):41-67.
Practical Reasoning.Bart Streumer - 2010 - In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 244-251.
Practical reasoning.Robert Audi - 1989 - New York: Routledge.
Understanding 'Practical Knowledge'.John Schwenkler - 2015 - Philosophers' Imprint 15.
Practical reason.R. Jay Wallace - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Practical reason, value and action.Alison Hills - 2007 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 4 (3):375-392.
What is (Correct) Practical Reasoning?Julian Fink - 2013 - Acta Analytica 28 (4):471-482.
Anscombe on 'Practical Knowledge'.Richard Moran - 2004 - In J. Hyman & H. Steward (eds.), Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. Cambridge University Press. pp. 43-68.
The conclusion of practical reasoning: the shadow between idea and act.Sarah K. Paul - 2013 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 43 (3):287-302.

Analytics

Added to PP
2017-02-03

Downloads
133 (#127,987)

6 months
6 (#202,901)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Patricio A. Fernandez
University of Texas at Austin

Citations of this work

All Reasons are Fundamentally for Attitudes.Conor McHugh & Jonathan Way - 2022 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 21 (2).
Consequentialism and the Standard Story of Action.Paul Hurley - 2018 - The Journal of Ethics 22 (1):25-44.
The Instrumental Rule.Jeremy David Fix - 2020 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 6 (4):444-462.
Choice and Action in Aristotle.A. W. Price - 2016 - Phronesis 61 (4):435-462.

View all 15 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references