Understanding people : normativity and rationalizing explanation

=001  19947=003  OCoLC=005  20040916190539.0=008  040917s2004    enk           001 0 eng=015  ##$aGBA4-X4571=020  ##$a0199254400 : $c£40.0=040  ##$aUKM $cUKM $dC#P $dHU=040  ##$aUKM $cUKM $dC#P $dHUA $dOrLoB-=041  0#$aeng=050  ##$aBD450 $b.M54 200=082  #0$a128 $22=092  ##$a128 $bM6=100  \1$aMillar, Alan, $cPh. D=245  \1$aUnderstanding people : $bnormativity and rationalizing explanation / $cAlan Millar=260  ##$aOxford : $bClarendon Press ; $aNew York : $bOxford University Press, $c2004=300  ##$axvi, 262 p. ; $c24 cm=504  ##$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [248]-257) and index=520  \1$a"Alan Millar examines our understanding of why people think and act as they do. His key theme is that normative considerations form an indispensable part of the explanatory framework in terms of which we seek to understand each other. Millar defends the idea that normativity is linked to reasons. On this basis he examines the structure of certain normative commitments incurred by having propositional attitudes. Controversially, he argues that ascriptions of beliefs and intentions in and of themselves attribute normative commitments and that this has implications for the psychology of believing and intending. Indeed, all propositional attitudes of the sort we ascribe to people have a normative dimension, since possessing the concepts that the attitudes implicate is of its very nature commitment-incurring. The ramifications of these views for our understanding of people is explored. Millar offers illuminating discussions of reasons for belief and reasons for action; the explanation of beliefs and actions in terms of the subject's reasons; the idea that simulation has a key role in understanding people; and the limits of explanation in terms of propositional attitudes. He compares and contrasts the commitments incurred by propositional attitudes with those incurred by participating in practices, arguing that the former should not be assimilated to the latter." "Understanding People will be of great interest to most philosophers of mind, as well as to those working on practical and theoretical reasoning."--BOOK JACKET=650  ##$aPhilosophical anthropology=650  ##$aPhilosophy of mind=970  \1$l1 $tIntroduction=970  \1$l2 $tReasons for belief and for action $p4=970  \1$l3 $tNormative commitments and the very idea of normativity $p7=970  \1$l4 $tExplaining normative import $p10=970  \1$l5 $tThe reflexivity of intention and belief $p13=970  \1$l6 $tMeaning and intentional content $p15=970  \1$l7 $tThe problem of explanatory relevance $p19=970  \1$l8 $tRationality and simulation $p21=970  \1$l9 $tLimits $p23=993  #0$ev=LDR  02992cam a2200421 a 45x0