Practical Reasoning about Final Ends
How should we reason about what we do? The answer offered by most recent philosophy, as well as such disciplines as decision theory, welfare economics, and political science, is that we should select efficient means to our ends. However, if we ask how we should decide which ends or goals to aim at, these standard theoretical approaches are silent. Henry Richardson argues that we can determine our ends rationally. He constructs a rich and original theory of how we can reason about what to seek for its own sake as a final goal. Richardson defuses the counterarguments for the limits of rational deliberation, and develops interesting ideas about how his model might be extended to interpersonal deliberation of ends, taking him to the borders of political theory.
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Practical Reasoning about Final Ends
How should we reason about what we do? The answer offered by most recent philosophy, as well as such disciplines as decision theory, welfare economics, and political science, is that we should select efficient means to our ends. However, if we ask how we should decide which ends or goals to aim at, these standard theoretical approaches are silent. Henry Richardson argues that we can determine our ends rationally. He constructs a rich and original theory of how we can reason about what to seek for its own sake as a final goal. Richardson defuses the counterarguments for the limits of rational deliberation, and develops interesting ideas about how his model might be extended to interpersonal deliberation of ends, taking him to the borders of political theory.
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Practical Reasoning about Final Ends

Practical Reasoning about Final Ends

by Henry S. Richardson
Practical Reasoning about Final Ends

Practical Reasoning about Final Ends

by Henry S. Richardson

Overview

How should we reason about what we do? The answer offered by most recent philosophy, as well as such disciplines as decision theory, welfare economics, and political science, is that we should select efficient means to our ends. However, if we ask how we should decide which ends or goals to aim at, these standard theoretical approaches are silent. Henry Richardson argues that we can determine our ends rationally. He constructs a rich and original theory of how we can reason about what to seek for its own sake as a final goal. Richardson defuses the counterarguments for the limits of rational deliberation, and develops interesting ideas about how his model might be extended to interpersonal deliberation of ends, taking him to the borders of political theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521574426
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 02/28/1997
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Problem: 1. Introduction; 2. Practical reasoning; Part II. Scope: 3. Ends in deliberation; 4. Specifying ends; Part III. System: 5. Value incommensurability; 6. Is commensurability a prerequisite of rational choice?; 7. Practical coherence; 8. Reflective sovereignty; Part IV. Source: 9. Sources and limits; 10. Ultimate ends; Part V. Disagreement: 11. Interpersonal deliberation; 12. Disagreement in concept and in practice; 13. Dialectical softening; 14. Realizing rationality.
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