The Retreat of Reason : A Dilemma in the Philosophy of Life /
Ingmar Persson
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2008
- 494p
includes index and biblioraphy
PART I: THE NATURE OF PARA-COGNITIVE ATTITUDES 1. Pain as a Sensory Quality 2. Pleasure as a Sensory Quality 3. Beyond Hedonism 4. An Analysis of Desire 5. The Concept of Emotion 6. A Typology of Emotion PART II: REASON AND VALUE 7. Introduction: Subjectivism and Objectivism 8. The Structure of Reasons: Internalism 9. An Objective Requirement? 10. The Desire Relativity of Value 11. The Rationality of Para-cognitive Attitudes 12. Weakness of Will 13. Representational Mechanisms PART III: RATIONALITY AND TEMPORAL NEUTRALITY 14. Introduction: The Notion of a Temporal Bias 15. The Irrationality of the Bias towards the Near 16. The Irrationality of the Bias towards the Future 17. The Dilemma as regards Temporal Neutrality PART IV: RATIONALITY AND PERSONAL NEUTRALITY 18. Introduction: The Bias towards Oneself 19. Self and Body 20. Psychological Theories of our Identity 21. Somatist Theories of our Identity 22. The Identity of Material Bodies 23. The Rational Insignificance of Identity and Continuity 24. Self-concern and Self-approval 25. Concern for and Approval of Others 26. Prudence: Maximization or Idealism? 27. The Requirement of Personal Neutrality 28. Moral Individualism: Autonomy and Agreement 29. The Dilemma as regards Personal Neutrality PART V: RATIONALITY AND RESPONSIBILITY 30. Introduction 31. Predictability and the Experience of Freedom 32. Compatibilist Freedom of Action 33. Compatibilist Freedom of Will 34. Responsibility and Desert 35. The Deontological Element of Responsibility 36. The Emotive Genesis of Desert 37. The Dilemma as regards Responsibility