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Practical reason and motivation.

Li King Wai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-167). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1. --- Introduction / "Desire, reason, and motivation" / Chapter I. --- The Issue --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- Desires and Motives --- p.2 / Chapter III. --- "Reason,Reasoning, and Practical Reason" --- p.7 / Chapter IV. --- The Question of the Gap --- p.8 / Chapter V. --- The Motivational Problem --- p.11 / Chapter VI. --- The Motivational Problem: A factual inquiry or a normative inquiry? --- p.16 / Chapter VII. --- Motivational Priority: Reason or desire? --- p.19 / Chapter VIII. --- An Overview of the Following Chapters --- p.21 / Chapter 2. --- Cognitivist Motivational Internalism / Kosgaard's attempt / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.27 / Chapter II. --- Internalism Requirement (IR) --- p.30 / Chapter III. --- Condition of being Practically Rational (CPR) --- p.31 / Chapter IV. --- What IR Implies and Doesn't Imply --- p.36 / Chapter V. --- Motivational Skepticism Assumes Content Skepticism --- p.41 / Chapter VI. --- A Humean Conception of Practical Reason --- p.47 / Chapter VII. --- Kosgaard vs. Williams on the Proper Interpretation of IR --- p.52 / Chapter 3. --- Varieties of Humeanism / "Arguments for the principle of desire-in, desire-out" / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.57 / Chapter II. --- Comprehensive Humeanism: An overview --- p.61 / Chapter III. --- Bald Instrumentalism --- p.64 / Chapter IV. --- Argument from Direction of Fit --- p.68 / Chapter V. --- Partial Humeanism (PH) --- p.86 / Chapter VI. --- Looking Backward and Looking Forward --- p.91 / Chapter 4. --- Quasi-Humeanism / Backgrounding PDIO / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.93 / Chapter II. --- Strict Background View of Desire --- p.94 / Chapter III. --- Background Desire as an Enabling Condition --- p.119 / Chapter IV. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.123 / Chapter 5. --- Fusionist Alternative / Dissolving the reason/ desire dichotomy / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.125 / Chapter II. --- Setting the Stage: The status of the debate without the fusionist alternative --- p.126 / Chapter III. --- Challenges to Humeanism: Motivation for a fusionist alternative --- p.129 / Chapter IV. --- The Fusionist Alternative --- p.133 / Chapter V. --- Three Merits of the Fusionist Account --- p.144 / Chapter VI. --- Conclusion --- p.151 / Chapter 6. --- Conclusion / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.154 / Chapter II. --- Seeing the Point of a Rational Consideration and Being Motivated --- p.155 / Chapter III. --- The Inadequacies of CMI? --- p.159 / Chapter IV. --- The Dilemma of a Humean Conception of Desire --- p.160 / Chapter V. --- PDIO: Is it exclusively reserved for Humeanism? --- p.162 / Chapter VI. --- Conclusion: Groping in the dark --- p.163 / Bibliography --- p.165

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_325516
Date January 2006
ContributorsLi, King Wai., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Philosophy.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, vii, 167 leaves ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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