Reasons why
Reasons why

Author: Bradford Skow

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0198785844

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Reasons Why first argues that what philosophers are really after, or at least should be after, when they seek a theory of explanation, is a theory of answers to why-questions. It then advances a thesis about what form a theory of answers to why-questions should take: a theory of answers to why-questions should say what it takes for one fact to be a reason why another fact obtains. The book's main thesis, then, is a theory of reasons why. Every reason why some event happened is either a cause, or a ground, of that event. Challenging this thesis are many examples philosophers have thought they have found of "non-causal explanations." Reasons Why uses two ideas to show that these examples are not counterexamples to the theory it defends. First is the idea that not every part of a good response to a why-question is part of an answer to that why-question. Second is the idea that not every reason why something is a reason why an event happened is itself a reason why that event happened. In the book's final chapter its theory of reasons why is extended to cover teleological answers to why-questions, and answers to why-questions that give an agent's reason for acting.

Some Reasons Why the TwoPerCentClaims of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio
Some Reasons Why the TwoPerCentClaims of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio

Author: Isaac Morris

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-01-30

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 3382104539

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Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Several Reasons why Some Officers of the Army, with Many Other Good People, Did Heretofore Admit Of, and Subject to Oliver Cromwell, as the Supreme Magistrate of the Common-wealth ... As Also, why They Did Admit Of, and Subject to Richard, the Eldest Son of the Said Oliver, as Successor to His Father in the Government ... Likewise, why They Have Rejected the Said Government, and Earnestlie Desired the Long Parliament to Sit to Exercise and Discharge Their Trust in Governing the Said Common-wealth Without a Single Person, King-ship, Or House of Lords
Several Reasons why Some Officers of the Army, with Many Other Good People, Did Heretofore Admit Of, and Subject to Oliver Cromwell, as the Supreme Magistrate of the Common-wealth ... As Also, why They Did Admit Of, and Subject to Richard, the Eldest Son of the Said Oliver, as Successor to His Father in the Government ... Likewise, why They Have Rejected the Said Government, and Earnestlie Desired the Long Parliament to Sit to Exercise and Discharge Their Trust in Governing the Said Common-wealth Without a Single Person, King-ship, Or House of Lords

Author: Oliver Cromwell

Publisher:

Published: 1659

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13:

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Why I Write
Why I Write

Author: George Orwell

Publisher: Renard Press Ltd

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13: 1913724263

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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times