Understanding Reason: A Defense of Kantian Naturalism
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angličtina
Original language name
Understanding Reason: A Defense of Kantian Naturalism
Original language description
Developing a Kantian thought, which Wilfrid Sellars took himself to be spelling out, I present a planning semantics for two modal operators: shall and ought. On this basis, instrumental reason and the deontic or moral frame of mind are species of a genus of practical rationality. In order to model the deontic modalities as having a strong and a weak force, however, it is necessary to distinguish deontic from intentional frames of mind in ways that Sellars was not sufficiently sensitive to. And on this basis, it is possible to account for a central tenet of Kant’s view of practical reason, by explaining how a course of action is arrived at on the basis of an instru-mental practical syllogism – and so expressed with a claim about what one shall do – can also count as an exercise of deontic cognition in the recognition of what reason prescribes one ought to do. The ability to give such a tidy explanation of the unified character of practically rational cognition, as manifest in instrumental reason and the moral point of view, illustrates both the importance of formal methods in philosophical speculation and the ingenuity and insight that enlivened the philosophies of Kant and Sellars.
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GX20-05180X" target="_blank" >GX20-05180X: Inferentialism naturalized: norms, meanings and reasons in the natural world</a><br>
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Reading Kant with Sellars: Reconceiving Kantian Themes
ISBN
978-1-03-237397-3
Number of pages of the result
25
Pages from-to
281-305
Number of pages of the book
366
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
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