...––as this would evidently rule out incontinence, Davidson has to dissociate the ‘causally strongest’ reasons from those the agent deems best, to the effect that the conclusion of the practical syllogism based on the latter is no longer identical to the action the incontinent agent performs (as Essay 1 had claimed...

..., and §6.1 discusses how some contemporary models of acting akratically are either deflationary or change the subject. Furthermore, it is argued that the Aristotelian practical syllogism is problematic as an explanation for how we act akratically. Focusing on the workings...

... proving some claims to knowledge as false (using modus tollens). Syllogistic deduction requires modification to gain utility, such as the partial and practical syllogisms. However, these forms are logically invalid in that they do not ensure certainty in the conclusions. The partial...

...This chapter argues that freedom is a matter of taking responsibility, but such an idea could be misunderstood if seen as some form of practical syllogism where an abstract, normative proposition is applied to a set of discrete facts. It begins by looking at the problem of freedom and seeking...

...Practical reasoning has been misrepresented by the so‐called practical syllogism as not essentially involving evaluations. Correcting this error helps show why it is implausible to hold, as e.g. J. David Velleman and others have, that an underlying proper desire is always required to explain...

... Panaetius Places Édouard des Kenny Anthony Protagoras Chrysippus Diogenes Laertius Apollodorus of Seleucia Aristo of Chios Crates Epictetus Zeno of Citium Sextus Empiricus Antipater of Tarsus Carneades Diogenes of Babylon Hecato planning practical syllogism intellectual virtue appropriate...

... fairness principle of Gutmann A Thompson D practical rationality practical syllogism defeasibility equality of power universalizability public reasoning If the democratic procedures of the sort represented by common property resource regimes model a social contract, what type of social contract...

... and, second, acting on a maxim, in either case without success. How the agent who holds a maxim differs from an agent who does not cannot be made out. As for acting on a maxim, Kant's texts support two accounts, the one relying on the practical syllogism, the other on the faculty of judgment. Notoriously...

... that action in a distinctive way. The difference between ultimate and derived desires is elucidated via the notion of the practical syllogism. The relation between desires and normative beliefs is clarified, especially the belief that the agent has a normative reason for action. Rational agents tend to desire...

...), in particular on the difficult passages that introduce the so-called ‘practical syllogism’; at this particular point of the treatise the practical syllogism is used as part of the answer to the question of why it is that an agent, by thinking, sometimes acts but sometimes does not act. The author argues...

... of the practical syllogism in MA 7 will imply a more differentiated account of how desire and thought (or, in the case of non-human animals, perception and phantasia) must come together in order to initiate motion. Instead, MA 6 15 Cf. the discussion in Corcilius, this volume, chapter IV. 16 This list is given...

... of contract theory. One is the idea of the practical syllogism. Another is the distinction between agent-relative and agent-neutral reasons. A third is the distinction between internal and external reasons. Both utility theory and deliberative theory should be thought to be normative. The principle...

.... This chapter also discusses what Hegel calls “objective judgment,” and considers its relation to the practical syllogism. Hegel’s analysis reveals that there is an irreducible role for judgment as an act of self-determination and self-constitution, an activity that is immediately manifest in the activity...

... criticizes claims that practical reasoning is distinguished by special premises, conclusions, or rules of inference. Aristotle practical reasoning reasoning theoretical reasoning vs practical reasoning absolute goals goals inferences and practical reasoning Kenny T practical syllogism actions...

...Maxims are traditionally understood as major premises of the practical syllogism, or of practical reasoning. In maxims, objects to be brought about by action are represented as “good”. As rationalist thinkers traditionally understood desires, these also are representations of object as “good...

... and interpreting the actions of a person as an integral part of the radical interpreter’s objective. It looks into Davidson’s defense of Aristotle’s position that rationalization is a species of causal explanation, and uses Aristotle’s practical syllogism which explains an action in terms of a belief and a desire...

... on these questions. The chapter starts its examination of these questions with a detailed description of what Aristotle had to say on this topic. The chapter argues that a unifying reading of Aristotle's employment of the practical syllogism is possible and philosophically attractive. Even if there might...

... conclusions as he requires. The basic liberties and their priority can be defended in broadly Rawlsian terms, assuming that the contracting parties use the practical syllogism of deliberative rationality. However, that form of reasoning cannot deal with cases where the liberties conflict, despite Rawls’s...