Acting for Reasons: In defence of Common-sense Psychology
Author:   Emma Borg (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   13 December 2024
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Author:   Emma Borg (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780198929000


ISBN 10:   0198929005
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   13 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements Acting for Reasons In Defence of Common-sense Psychology 1: Do We Do What We Do for the Reasons We Have? 2: Two Challenges to Common-sense Psychology 3: The Nature of Rationality 4: Heuristics as Unthinking Processes?: Rejecting the No Reasons Challenge to CP 5: Heuristics as Rules of Thumb: The Insufficient Reasons Challenge to CP 6: Rejecting Empirical Evidence of Systematic Irrationality 7: Reframing Empirical Evidence of Irrationality 8: CP's Account of Action Understanding and the Deflationary Challenge 9: Behaviour-reading Accounts 10: Objections to Behaviour-reading Accounts 11: Mid-ground Accounts of Action Understanding 12: Common-sense Psychology Vindicated Bibliography Index

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Emma Borg is Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, London. Before this, she was at the University of Reading, where she was Head of Department and Director of the Reading Centre for Cognition Research. She has held a number of visiting positions (including the White Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2011, University of Chicago) and awards (including a Philip Leverhulme Prize and a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship). Her main research interests lie in philosophy of language (defending 'minimal semantics'), philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and business ethics. Her work in business ethics led to her appointment as an Independent Advisor to the Professional Standards Committee of His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

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