Aspiration by Callard, Agnes -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction

I. Overview: Reasoning toward Value

(a) How We Got Here (b) Valuing and Aspiring

II. Outline of Chapters

(a) Rationality (b) Moral Psychology (c) Responsibility

III. A Case Study: Alcibiades IV. Self and Value

Part I Practical Rationality

1. Decision Theory and Transformative Choice

I. Ullmann-Margalit on Old Person versus New Person II. Paul on Deciding to Become a Vampire III. Self-Cultivation versus Self-Transformation IV. Privileging Second-Order Preferences? V. The Decision Model versus the Aspiration Model VI. Transformative Choice?

2. Proleptic Reasons

I. Large-Scale Transformative Pursuits II. Alternatives to Proleptic Reasons?

(a) Vague Reasons (b) Self-Management Reasons (c) Testimonial Reasons (d) Reasons of Competition (e) Reasons of Pretense (f) Second-Order Reasons (g) Approximating Reasons

III. A Dilemma: Flailing versus Deepening IV. Internal Reasons

Part II Moral Psychology

3. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Conflict

I. Introduction

(a) Singling Aspiration Out, Fitting Aspiration In (b) Overview of Chapter 3 (c) Defining Intrinsic Conflict

II. Valuing: A Hybrid Account III. The Possibility of Intrinsic Conflict IV. Deliberative Irresolvability V. Intrinsic Conflict and Ethical Theory VI. Two Suggestions for Resolving Intrinsic Conflicts

(a) By Identification (Frankfurt) (b) By Aspiration

4. Akrasia

I. Defining Akrasia II. Acting on a Weaker Reason? III. Akrasia and Intrinsic Conflict IV. An Objection: Moralizing Akrasia V. Species of Intrinsic Conflict VI. Akratics and Aspirants

Part III Moral Responsibility

5. The Problem of Self-Creation

I. Self-Endorsement II. Self-Cultivation III. Neurath’s Boat IV. Escaping Strawson’s Dilemma

(a) Normative Dependence (b) Priority of Created Self (c) Strawson’s Two Requirements (d) Self-Creation by Aspiration (e) An Objection: The Value Gambit

V. Teleology and Agency

(a) Backward Causation? (b) Two Conceptions of Agency (c) Aspirational Agency versus Self-Standing Action

6. Self-Creation and Responsibility

I. Aspiration versus Dialectical Activity II. Aspiration versus Ambition III. Responsibility for Self: An Asymmetrical Account IV. The Aspiring Gangster? V. Responsibility for Character: A Test Case

Conclusion

I. Defending Aspiration II. Motherhood and Infertility

Bibliography Index