The will and normative judgment
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation focuses on the nature of intention and the scope of the kinds of objects it can take as contents. Contrary to the established opinion, I argue that human beings have the capacity to intend ends that go well beyond what they believe they can do or control. If we think of the will as the faculty by which we come to adopt and be committed to ends in practical deliberation, then what I argue for is a broader conception of the will. I think this broader conception provides us with new and fertile theoretical resources to account for dimensions of human agency that remain inaccessible to a theory of intention that restricts its possible objects to states of affairs the agent believes she can control. Here, I begin to explore the theoretical potential of this conception by showing how it can be employed by certain non-realist views in metanormativity to present attractive accounts of the nature of normative judgment. More specifically, I argue that Expressivist, Contextualist and Relativist metanormative views can appeal to the notion of an intention that takes as contents appropriately general principles of action—principles that concern what people in general are to do, or what everyone is to do in a given situation—to present a model of normative judgments that would help them deal, among other things, with one of the most pressing problems they currently face: that of accounting for interpersonal disagreement.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Núñez Jiménez, Carlos |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Philosophy. |
| Primary advisor | Bratman, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Bratman, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Dannenberg, Jorah, 1979- |
| Thesis advisor | Hussain, Nadeem J. Z |
| Advisor | Dannenberg, Jorah, 1979- |
| Advisor | Hussain, Nadeem J. Z |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Carlos Núñez Jiménez. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Philosophy. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2016 by Carlos Nunez Jimenez
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