Understanding People: Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation

by Alan Millar

Book Overview

Alan Millar examines our understanding of why people think and act as they do. His key theme is that normative considerations form an indispensable part of the explanatory framework in terms of which we seek to understand each other. Millar defends a conception according to which normativity is linked to reasons. On this basis he examines the structure of certain normative commitments incurred by having propositional attitudes. Controversially, he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0041V7DFE
• ISBN13: 9780199556724
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"