An edition of The Retreat of Reason
(2005)
The retreat of reason
a dilemma in the philosophy of life
by Ingmar Persson
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Table of Contents
Part I: The nature of para-cognitive attitudes
Pain as a sensory quality
Pleasure as a sensory quality
Beyond hedonism
An analysis of desire
The concept of emotion
A typology of emotion
Part II: Reason and value
Introduction: subjectivism and objectivism
The structure of reasons : internalism
An objective requirement?
The desire relativity of value
The rationality of para-cognitive attitudes
Weakness of will
Representational mechanisms
Part III: Rationality and temporal neutrality
The notion of a temporal bias
The irrationality of the bias towards the near
The irrationality of the bias towards the future
The dilemma as regards temporal neutrality
Part V: Rationality and personal neutrality
Introduction: the bias towards oneself
Self and body
Psychological theories of our identity
Somatist theories of our identity
The identity of material bodies
The rational insignificance of identity and continuity
Self-concern and self-approval
Concern for and approval of others
Prudence : maximization or idealism?
The requirement of personal neutrality
Moral individualism : autonomy and agreement
The dilemma as regards personal neutrality
Part V: Rationality and responsibility
Predictability and the experience of freedom
Compatibilist freedom of action
Compatibilist freedom of will
Responsibility and desert
The deontological element of responsibility
The emotive genesis of desert
The dilemma as regards responsibility
Conclusion: the conflict between rationalism and satisfactionalism.
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