{"product_id":"kinds-of-reasons-maria-alvarez-9780199680580","title":"Kinds of Reasons: An Essay in the Philosophy of Action","description":"Understanding 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Alvarez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199680582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199680580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Maria Alvarez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054731194623,"sku":"9780199680580","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d350d2a6-6b27-4568-a130-89a24ff064e8.jpg?v=1685031663","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kinds-of-reasons-maria-alvarez-9780199680580","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}