Understanding human beings and their distinctive rational and volitional capacities is one of the central tasks of philosophy. The task requires a clear account

This book is about normativity and reasons. But by the end the subject becomes the relation between self, thought and world. Skorupski argues that the key conce

Philosophers have long been concerned about what we know and how we know it. Increasingly, however, a related question has gained prominence in philosophical di

Is what we have reason to do a matter of fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved, how can we know it, and how do reasons motivate and explain action? In thi

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