1st Edition
Knowing Where You Stand On the Value of Reflective Commitment
By Benjamin Ian Winokur
Copyright 2027
192 Pages
by
Routledge
This book examines whether human beings should reflect on, and hence come to know and understand, their own commitments—these being beliefs, desires, and intentions that are held and defended on the basis of judgments about the true and the good.
It begins by distinguishing committed attitudes from brute attitudes and addressing metaphysical concerns, paving the way for an in-depth inquiry into... Read more
1. Attitudes Committed, Attitudes Brute 2. Reflective Commitment 3. Justifying Where You Stand 4. Taking a Stand 5. Reflection, Rationality, and Action 6. Knowing Where You Stand Among Others 7. Understanding Where You Stand
Biography
Benjamin Winokur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Macau. He researches self-knowledge as well as topics in social epistemology and philosophy of mind. He is the co-editor of New Perspectives on Transparency and Self-Knowledge and the author of papers published in The European Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, Episteme, and elsewhere.
