The Right Kind of Reason for the Wrong Kind of Thing
This paper offers a novel solution to the Wrong Kind of Reason problem that afflicts Fitting-Attitude analyses of value. I argue that we can distinguish reasons of the right kind from reasons of the wrong kind by being clear about what our reasons are for. In Wrong Kind of Reason cases, our reason t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2024
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Journal of moral philosophy
Year: 2024, Volume: 21, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 106-126 |
| Further subjects: | B
affective attitudes
B Value B Reasons B actions |
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| Summary: | This paper offers a novel solution to the Wrong Kind of Reason problem that afflicts Fitting-Attitude analyses of value. I argue that we can distinguish reasons of the right kind from reasons of the wrong kind by being clear about what our reasons are for. In Wrong Kind of Reason cases, our reason to have a certain affective attitude is a reason for an action, and it is this category-mistake that is the source of the problem. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5243 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of moral philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455243-20233685 |