Download or read book Doing Things for Reasons written by Rudiger Bittner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly are the reasons we do things, and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a reason is a response to that state of affairs. Elegantly written, this work is a substantial contribution to the fields of rationality, ethics, and action theory.