Rationality, Time, and Self

• Main Author: Pearson, Olley (F.O.C.H.) (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Metaphysics.; Philosophy of mind.; Philosophy of Mind.

This book provides a new argument for the tensed theory of time and emergentism about the self. This argument derives in part from theories which establish our nature as rational and emotional beings whose behavior is responsive to reasons which are facts. It is argued that there must be reasons, he...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• PART I: INDEXICALS AND RATIONALITY
• Chapter 2: Tense and Emotions
• Chapter 3: Indexicals and Actions
• PART II: RATIONALITY
• Chapter 4: Reasons
• Chapter 5: Acting for a Reason
• Chapter 6: Rationality
• PART III: THE REALITY OF TENSE AND EMERGENCE OF THE SELF
• Chapter 7: The Argument from Rational Action
• Chapter 8: Implications for Non-indexical Cases
• Chapter 9: The Argument from Appropriate Emotions
• Chapter 10: Time and Self
• Chapter 11: Closing Remarks.