Autorentext

Emma Borg is Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, London. Before this, she was at the University of Reading, where she was Head of Department and Director of the Reading Centre for Cognition Research. She has held a number of visiting positions (including the White Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2011, University of Chicago) and awards (including a Philip Leverhulme Prize and a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship). Her main research interests lie in philosophy of language (defending 'minimal semantics'), philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and business ethics. Her work in business ethics led to her appointment as an Independent Advisor to the Professional Standards Committee of His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Klappentext

Borg defends 'Common-sense Psychology', the philosophical view that behaviour is generally the result of rational weighing of evidence and reasons. Borg rejects the argument that 'Common-sense Psychology is an urban myth and argues hat people do what they do for the reasons they have.

Inhalt

• Acknowledgements

• Acting for Reasons In Defence of Common-sense Psychology

• 1: Do We Do What We Do for the Reasons We Have?

• 2: Two Challenges to Common-sense Psychology

• 3: The Nature of Rationality

• 4: Heuristics as Unthinking Processes?: Rejecting the No Reasons Challenge to CP

• 5: Heuristics as Rules of Thumb: The Insufficient Reasons Challenge to CP

• 6: Rejecting Empirical Evidence of Systematic Irrationality

• 7: Reframing Empirical Evidence of Irrationality

• 8: CP's Account of Action Understanding and the Deflationary Challenge

• 9: Behaviour-reading Accounts

• 10: Objections to Behaviour-reading Accounts

• 11: Mid-ground Accounts of Action Understanding

• 12: Common-sense Psychology Vindicated

• Bibliography

• Index