[PDF] Top 20 Desire and value in practical reasoning

... to desire is never a mental ...to desire is not necessarily a mental action, and their familiarity suggests that it may be so only rarely; but neither of these factors support the conclusion that coming to ... See full document

... and desire in our going scientific explanations for motivational processes (call this the “location project”), or they must content themselves with formulating theories in commonsense terms ... See full document

... All in all, the denial of “mathematical” weighing, the use of the second person pronoun, and the reference to “individual” judgment which “you have to supply for yourself” make it clear that Govier does not see her ... See full document

... perceived desire to help was significantly higher in the high than low appraisal group for all six ...perceived value, the appraisal group manipulation was significant for all vignettes except To The Moon ... See full document

... of desire to use e-filing in the future, appropriateness of e-filing with needs, support for using e-filing, and e-filing ...average value of indicator of desire using e-filing in the future, the ... See full document

... What I understand Macnish to be arguing is that just war theory can provide a normative ethical perspective that can be deployed towards surveillance strategies and that this tradition can provide a seam of moral ... See full document

... relationship between values and attitudes and behavioral intentions could be explained by the expectancy-value theory of motivation (e.g., Atkinson, 1964). The expectancy-value theory postulated that ... See full document

... Talk about ethics can be slippery, and it can be lost in ‘ value talk ’ that shifts between personal inter- ests, norms of everyday life, ideas about fundamental responsibilities and basic expectations and goals. ... See full document

... In this paper, we present an abstract formal model of decision-making in a social setting that covers all aspects of the process, from recognition of a potential for cooperation through to joint decision. In a ... See full document

... 4. THE REGULATIVE ROLE OF IDEALS AND ASPIRATIONS Several thinkers have identified ways in which ideals can regulate moral reasoning by serving as ‘guideposts’ (to use Rescher’s phrase) in our deliberations about ... See full document

... -4has to distinguish between morality as a particular dimension of criticism and assessment of actions, a sphere of practical reasoning, and morality as a mode of vision, a general way o[r] ... See full document

... most practical reasoning, knowledge is the norm of all assertion and all practical ...of practical reasoning, or that in normal situations knowledge is the norm of assertion as well as ... See full document

... Having defined basic human values and distinguished them from domain-specific political values, we now develop our theory of value-based reasoning by addressing three key questions that any such theory must ... See full document

... contrast, practical rules capture patterns of pragmatic reasoning that agents may or may not adopt under different circumstances: they are the rules of an agent ... See full document

... personal opinions or judgments. So for this task, we will initially focus on arguments that are (or at least seem to be) empirical or objective rather than value-based. It will also be non-trivial to deter- mine ... See full document

... The account given above can be extended to provide an alternate understanding our informal explanations of human action as well as their defense. For instance, since practical knowled[r] ... See full document

... antecedents, in a clear case such as this ’ (which, I maintain, is false). Causal determinism concerning the individual events which are our actions is not, I wanted to suggest, a necessarily desirable concomitant of the ... See full document

... A 1937 legend establishes that in the secret society Acephale, Georges Bataille desired the co mmunity to be consecrated through the performance of ritual sacrifice. Historica l findings substantiate that he was indeed ... See full document

... Upshur et al (2001) moved towards dissent against EBHC, proposing a typology of research which made space for qualitative, personal and narrative forms of evidence. In Upshur (2002) he identified EBHC with ... See full document

... explanatory value and (objective) posterior ...Explanatory Value and Understand- ing), Rational Acceptability (Posterior Probability, Confirmation and Truth) and Entailment (Logical ...explanatory ... See full document