THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PRACTICAL REASON

<p>Over the last several decades, questions about practical reason have come to occupy the center stage in ethics and metaethics. <i>The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason</i> is an outstanding reference source to this exciting and distinctive subject area and is the first volume of its kind. Comprising thirty-six chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field and is divided into five parts:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Foundational Matters</li> <li>Practical Reason in the History of Philosophy </li> <li>Philosophy of Practical Reason as Action Theory and Moral Psychology</li> <li>Philosophy of Practical Reason as Theory of Practical Normativity</li> <li>The Philosophy of Practical Reason as the Theory of Practical Rationality</li> </ul><p>The Handbook also includes two chapters by the late Derek Parfit, ‘Objectivism about Reasons’ and ‘Normative Non-Naturalism.’</p><p>The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason is essential reading for philosophy students and researchers in metaethics, philosophy of action, action theory, ethics, and the history of philosophy.</p> <p>An introduction to the philosophy of practical reason <i>Kurt Sylvan and Ruth Chang </i><b>Part 1: Foundational matters </b>1. Some central questions about practical reason <i>T. M. Scanlon </i>2. Practical reason: rationality or normativity but not both <i>John Broome </i>3. Can reason be practical? narrow and board conceptions and capacities <i>Peter Railton </i>4. Practical reason and social practices <i>Sally Haslanger </i>5. How to be a pragmatist <i>Elizabeth Anderson </i>6. What is it to be a rational agent? <i>Ruth Chang </i><b>Part 2: Practical reason in the history of philosophy </b>7. Practical reasoning in early Chinese philosophy <i>David B. Wong </i>8. Aristotle on deliberation <i>Agnes Callard </i>9. Hume’s robust theory of practical reason <i>Geoffrey Sayre-McCord </i>10. Kant’s approach to the theory of human agency <i>Tamar Schapiro </i>11. Anscombe on acting for reasons <i>Keshav Singh </i><b>Part 3: Philosophy of practical reason as action theory and moral psychology </b>12. Three dogmas of agency theory <i>Nomy Arpaly </i>13. Some reflections on the relationship between reason and the will <i>Sarah Buss </i>14. Three for the price of two<b> </b><i>Jonathan Dancy </i>15. The guise of the good <i>Sergio Tenenbaum </i>16. Motivational internalism and externalism <i>Connie S. Rosati </i>17. Emotions in practical reasoning <i>Patricia Greenspan </i>18. Psychopathy, agency, and practical reason <i>Monique Wonderly </i>19. Practical reason and social science research <i>Valerie Tiberius and Natalia Washington </i><b>Part 4: The philosophy of practical reason as the theory of practical normativity </b><strong>Section 1: The nature and grounds of normative practical reasons</strong><em> </em>20. Objectivism about reasons <i>Derek Parfit (edited by Ruth Chang) </i>21. How to be a subjectivist <i>David Sobel </i>22. Kantian constructivism <i>Julia Markovits and Kenny Walden </i>23. Constitutivism: on rabbits, hats, and holy grails <i>David Enoch </i>24. Reasoning first <i>Pamela Hieronymi </i>25. Normative nonnaturalism <em>Derek Parfit (edited by Ruth Chang) </em><strong>Section 2: Some substantive matters</strong> 26. Non-requiring reasons <i>Margaret Olivia Little and Coleen Macnamara </i>27. Requirements of reason <i>R. Jay Wallace </i>28. Normative pluralism and skepticism about ‘ought <em>simpliciter</em>’ <i>David Copp </i>29. There is no moral <em>ought</em> and no prudential <em>ought</em> <i>Elizabeth Harman </i>30. Practical reason and the second-person standpoint <i>Stephen Darwall </i><b>Part 5: The philosophy of practical reason as the theory of practical rationality </b>31. The normativity of rationality <i>Errol Lord </i>32. The eclipse of instrumental rationality <i>Kurt Sylvan </i>33. Rationality, regret, and choice over time <i>Chrisoula Andreou </i>34. Plan rationality <i>Michael E. Bratman </i>35. Between sophistication and resolution – wise choice <i>Wlodek Rabinowicz </i>36. The norms of practical reasoning <i>Jennifer M. Morton and Sarah K. Paul. </i><i>Appendix: a guide to further reading Index</i></p>