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Reasons Why First Argues That What Philosophers Are Really After, Or At Least Should Be After, When They Seek A Theory Of Explanation, Is A Theory Of Answers To Why-questions. It Then Advances A Thesis About What Form A Theory Of Answers To Why-questions Should Take: A Theory Of Answers To Why-questions Should Say What It Takes For One Fact To Be A Reason Why Another Fact Obtains. The Book's Main Thesis, Then, Is A Theory Of Reasons Why. Every Reason Why Some Event Happened Is Either A Cause, Or A Ground, Of That Event. Challenging This Thesis Are Many Examples Philosophers Have Thought They Have Found Of Non-causal Explanations. Reasons Why Uses Two Ideas To Show That These Examples Are Not Counterexamples To The Theory It Defends. First Is The Idea That Not Every Part Of A Good Response To A Why-question Is Part Of An Answer To That Why-question. Second Is The Idea That Not Every Reason Why Something Is A Reason Why An Event Happened Is Itself A Reason Why That Event Happened. In The Book's Final Chapter Its Theory Of Reasons Why Is Extended To Cover Teleological Answers To Why-questions, And Answers To Why-questions That Give An Agent's Reason For Acting.-- A Few Opening Remarks
Who reads Reasons why?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Skow, Bradford
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191088865
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Psychology
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