Action, decision-making, and forms of life / / edited by Jesús Padilla Gálvez

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2016]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (173 pages)
• Disciplina: 128/.4
• Soggetto topico: Act (Philosophy); Decision making; Life; Language and languages - Philosophy
• Soggetto non controllato: Theory of action; Wittgenstein, Ludwig; decision; language games
• Persona (resp. second.): Padilla GálvezJesús
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Action, Decision-Making and Forms of Life -- The Quest for Knowledge as a Form of Life: Collective Thought and Decision in Science -- Intuition, Decision, Compulsion -- Actions Embedded in Forms of Life -- Action and Decision-Making -- Wittgenstein on the Will and Voluntary Action -- Moral Epistemology, Interpersonal Indeterminacy and Enactivism -- Structures, Dynamisms and Contents of Our Belief System: Husserl and Wittgenstein -- ‘Hinges’ and the Boundaries of Epistemic Agency -- Decisions, Actions, and Forms of Personal Life -- Abbreviations of Wittgenstein’s Works -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The book is exceptional because it applies the notion of foms of life to the context of human action. It provides answers to the following questions: Why do we act in a specific way? Why do we make particular decisions? Does one's form of life and language games determine our actions and decisions? Wittgenstein proposes a holistic method which enables us to give coherent answers to these questions. To answer the question of the contents of actions and decisions we have to explain how we have institutionalized these actions or decisions. To this aim we shall reveal the frame within which language games are introduced and have come to function as practice and custom. The scheme of order underlying the language games is illustrated. Human actions and decisions follow particular rules. By highlighting the underlying scheme of order we may gain a perspicuous view of these rules. The aim of this book is to show that actions and decisions generate rational choice. This choice is explained by demonstrating the particular functions of the language games involved.
• Titolo autorizzato: Action, decision-making, and forms of life
• ISBN: 3-11-047300-3; 3-11-047367-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808556303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Aporia (Berlin, Germany) ; ; Volume 9.