TY  - BOOK
TI  - Talking to our selves: reflection, ignorance, and agency
AU  - Doris, John M.
PY  - 2015
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
LA  - eng
KW  - Agent (Philosophy)
KW  - Responsibility
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Self-consciousness (Awareness)
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Verantwortung
KW  - Selbstbeobachtung
AB  - John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our understanding of ourselves as moral agents with psychological research on the unconscious mind. Much philosophical theorizing maintains that the exercise of morally responsible agency consists in judgment and behavior ordered by accurate reflection. On such theories, when human beings are able to direct their lives in the manner philosophers have dignified with the honorific 'agency', it's because they know what they're doing, and why they're doing it. This understanding is compromised by quantities of psychological research on unconscious processing, which suggests that accurate reflection is distressingly uncommon; very often behavior is ordered by surprisingly inaccurate self-awareness. Thus, if agency requires accurate reflection, people seldom exercise agency, and skepticism about agency threatens. To counter the skeptical threat, John M. Doris proposes an alternative theory that requires neither reflection nor accurate self-awareness: he identifies a dialogic form of agency where self-direction is facilitated by exchange of the rationalizations with which people explain and justify themselves to one another. The result is a stoutly interdisciplinary theory sensitive to both what human beings are like - creatures with opaque and unruly psychologies - and what they need: an account of agency sufficient to support a practice of moral responsibility
SP  - xi, 264 Seiten
ET  - 1. ed.
SN  - 0199570396
SN  - 9780199570393
SN  - 9780198805182
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/kxp-815653182
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -