{"product_id":"kinds-of-reasons-an-essay-in-the-philosophy-of-action-9780199550005","title":"Kinds of Reasons: An Essay in the Philosophy of Action","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Maria Alvarez\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethics \u0026amp; Moral Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderstanding human beings and their distinctive rational and volitional capacities is one of the central tasks of philosophy. The task requires a clear account of such things as reasons, desires, emotions and motives, and of how they combine to produce and explain human behaviour. In \u003cem\u003eKinds of Reasons, \u003c\/em\u003e Maria Alvarez offers a fresh and incisive treatment of these issues, focusing in particular on reasons as they feature in contexts of agency. Her account builds on some important recent work in the area; but she takes her main inspiration from the tradition that receives its seminal contemporary expression in the writings of G.E.M. Anscombe, a tradition that runs counter to the broadly Humean orthodoxy that has dominated the theory of action for the past forty years. Alvarez's conclusions are therefore likely to be controversial; and her bold and painstaking arguments will be found provocative by participants on every side of the debates with which she engages. Clear and directly written, \u003cem\u003eKinds of Reasons\u003c\/em\u003e aims to stake out a distinctive position within one of the most hotly contested areas of contemporary philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47606937059479,"sku":"9780199550005","price":8444.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199550005.webp?v=1775043754","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/kinds-of-reasons-an-essay-in-the-philosophy-of-action-9780199550005","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}