Understanding people : normativity and rationalizing explanation

Understanding people : normativity and rationalizing explanation / Alan Millar.

Alan Millar examines our understanding of why people think and act as they do. His key theme is that normative considerations form an indispensable part of the explanatory framework which we use to understand each other.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Millar, Alan, 1947- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophical anthropology.
philosophical anthropology.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Philosophical anthropology
Philosophy of mind
Normen (menswetenschappen)
Rationaliteit.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Reasons for belief and action
  • Normative commitments and the very idea of normativity
  • Explaining normative import
  • The reflexivity of intention and belief
  • Meaning and intentional content
  • The problem of explanatory relevance
  • Rationality and simulation
  • Limits.

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