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Evidence And Agency Is Concerned With The Question Of How, As Agents, We Should Take Evidence Into Account When Thinking About Our Future Actions. Suppose You Are Promising Or Resolving To Do Something That You Have Evidence Is Difficult For You To Do. For Example, Suppose You Are Promising To Be Faithful For The Rest Of Your Life, Or You Are Resolving To Quit Smoking. Should You Believe That You Will Follow Through, Or Should You Believe That There Is A Good Chance That You Won't? If You Believe The Former, You Seem To Be Irrational Since You Believe Against The Evidence. Yet If You Believe The Latter, You Seem To Be Insincere Since You Can't Sincerely Say That You Will Follow Through. Hence, It Seems, Your Promise Or Resolution Must Be Improper. Nonetheless, We Make Such Promises And Resolutions All The Time. Indeed, As The Examples Illustrate, Such Promises And Resolutions Are Very Important To Us. The Challenge Is To Explain This Apparent Inconsistency In Our Practice Of Promising And Resolving. To Meet This Challenge, Berislav Marusic Considers A Number Of Possible Responses, Including An Appeal To 'trying', An Appeal To Non-cognitivism About Practical Reason, An Appeal To 'pr

Author

Berislav Marušić

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198714040

Subjects

Psychology, Philosophy, Humanities