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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Errol Lord (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennslyvania)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.592kg ISBN: 9780198815099ISBN 10: 0198815093 Pages: 278 Publication Date: 21 June 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart I: Initial Motivations 1: Introduction 2: The Coherent and the Rational Part II: Possessing Reasons 3: Possession: The Epistemic Condition 4: Possession: The Practical Condition Part III: Correctly Responding to Reasons 5: Correctly Responding to Reasons 6: Achievements and Intelligibility Part IV: Two Problems Solved 7: Defeating the Externalist's Demons 8: What you're Rationally Required to Do and What you Ought to DoReviewsErrol Lord's The Importance of Being Rational is a tour de force treatment of the relationship between reasons, rationality, knowledge, and what Lord calls creditworthiness, the kind of achievement where you don't just do what is right, but do it for the right reasons. * Mark Schroeder, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research * Errol Lord's The Importance of Being Rational is a beautiful presentation of how one might defend a reasons-first approach to rationality. And it has many insights that will be useful to non-reasons-firsters as well. As such, there's a great deal in the details of Lord's arguments that repays careful consideration. * Karl Schafer, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research * The Importance of Being Rational marks a new moment in debates about the nature of rationality. It is absolutely compulsory reading for epistemologists, ethicists, and meta-ethicists alike. * Nathan Robert Howard, Ethics * The Importance of Being Rational is a rich, ambitious, and thought-provoking book. * Olle Risberg, European Journal of Philosophy * [Lord's] book is an essential reading in the literature on reasons. * Julia Staffel, The Philosophical Review * the book is an admirable philosophical feat that rewards careful study. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the nature, and worth, of rationality. * Carlos N´uñez, The Philosophical Quarterly * the book offers an informed, original, rich, sophisticated and exceptionally well-illustrated case for the claim that what we are rationally required to do and what we substantially ought to do is really the same thing. To follow Errol Lord on his route to this conclusion is a frequently rewarding experience and one that is well worth undertaking. * Hallvard Lillehammer, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * the book offers an informed, original, rich, sophisticated and exceptionally well-illustrated case for the claim that what we are rationally required to do and what we substantially ought to do is really the same thing. To follow Errol Lord on his route to this conclusion is a frequently rewarding experience and one that is well worth undertaking. * Hallvard Lillehammer, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * Author InformationErrol Lord is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He works in ethical theory, epistemology, the philosophy of action, and aesthetics. He has published papers in Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and British Journal of Aesthetics, among other places. He co-edited Weighing Reasons (OUP, 2016) with Barry Maguire. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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