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Constructing Practical Reasons (Hardcover, 1)
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Constructing Practical Reasons (Hardcover, 1)
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Some things are reasons for us to perform certain actions. That it
will spare you great pain in the future, for example, is a reason
for you to go to the dentist now, and that you are already late for
work is a reason for you not to read the next article in the
morning paper. Why are such considerations reasons for or against
certain actions? Constructivism offers an intriguing answer to this
question. Its basic idea is often encapsulated in the slogan that
reasons are not discovered but made by us. Andreas Muller
elaborates this idea into a fully-fledged account of practical
reasons, makes its theoretical commitments explicit, and defends it
against some well-known objections. Constructing Practical Reasons
begins with an examination of the distinctive role that reason
judgements play in the process of practical reasoning. This
provides the resources for an anti-representationalist conception
of the nature of those judgements, according to which they are
true, if they are true, not because they accurately represent
certain normative facts, but because of their role in sound
reasoning. On the resulting view, a consideration owes its status
as a reason to the truth of the corresponding reason judgement and
thus, ultimately, to the soundness of a certain episode of
reasoning. Consequently, our practical reasons exhibit a kind of
mind-dependence, but this does not force us to deny their
objectivity.
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