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Feeling Like It: A Theory of Inclination and Will

Autor Tamar Schapiro
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 feb 2021
You may have an inclination to do it, but there is still a moment when you can decide to do it or not. This "moment of drama" is more puzzling than it first appears. When you are inclined to do something, are you related to your inclination as rider to horse? As ruler to subject? As thinker to thoughts? Schapiro shows that these familiar pictures fail to confront the central puzzle. Inclinations are motives with respect to which we are distinctively passive. But to be motivated is to be active—to be self-moved. How can you be passive in relation to your own activity? Schapiro puts forward an "inner animal" view, inspired by Kant, which holds that when you are merely inclined to act, the instinctive part of yourself is already active, while the rest of you is not. At this moment, your will is at a crossroads. You can humanize your inclination, or you can dehumanize yourself. Feeling Like It provides a concise and accessible investigation of a new problem at the intersection of ethics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198862932
ISBN-10: 0198862938
Pagini: 182
Dimensiuni: 145 x 225 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

advanced scholars and professors interested in new ideas in the philosophy of action will find it invigorating and will be inclined to read the book a second time. This is a strong, well-researched book. Recommended. Ambitious upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Feeling Like It is a very good book.
Jeff Sebo's Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves offers an ambitious and passionate call for the inclusion of nonhuman animals (henceforth animals) in our personal deliberations and political decisions, where they have so far been routinely neglected.

Notă biografică

Tamar Schapiro holds a BA from Yale and a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard. She taught in the department of philosophy at Stanford for many years before joining MIT, where she is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy. She has published articles on Kantian ethics, the theory of action, and motivational psychology.