{"product_id":"kinds-of-reasons-9780199680580","title":"Kinds of Reasons","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding human beings and their distinctive rational and volitional capacities is one of the central tasks of philosophy. The task requires a clear account of such things as reasons, desires, emotions and motives, and of how they combine to produce and explain human behaviour. In Kinds of Reasons, Maria Alvarez offers a fresh and incisive treatment of these issues, focusing in particular on reasons as they feature in contexts of agency. Her account builds on some important recent work in the area; but she takes her main inspiration from the tradition that receives its seminal contemporary expression in the writings of G.E.M. Anscombe, a tradition that runs counter to the broadly Humean orthodoxy that has dominated the theory of action for the past forty years. Alvarez''s conclusions are therefore likely to be controversial; and her bold and painstaking arguments will be found provocative by participants on every side of the debates with which she engages. Clear and directly writte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'clear and thoughtful ... offers a serious challenge to the standard view of reasons' * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction ; 1. Reasons ; 2. Reasons, Kinds, Ontology ; 3. Motivation and Desires ; 4. Desires and Motivating Reasons ; 5. Beliefs and Motivating Reasons ; 6. The Explanation of Action","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767058923863,"sku":"9780199680580","price":35.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199680580.jpg?v=1758712184","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kinds-of-reasons-9780199680580","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}