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The Range of Reasons - in Ethics and Epistemology (Hardcover, 1)
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The Range of Reasons - in Ethics and Epistemology (Hardcover, 1)
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The Range of Reasons contributes to two debates and it does so by
bringing them together. The first is a debate in metaethics
concerning normative reasons, the considerations that serve to
justify a person's actions and attitudes. The second is a debate in
epistemology concerning the norms for belief, the standards that
govern a person's beliefs and by reference to which they are
assessed. The book starts by developing and defending a new theory
of reasons for action, that is, of practical reasons. The theory
belongs to a family that analyses reasons by appeal to the
normative notion of rightness (fittingness, correctness); it is
distinctive in making central appeal to modal notions,
specifically, that of a nearby possible world. The result is a
comprehensive framework that captures what is common to and
distinctive of reasons of various kinds: justifying and demanding;
for and against; possessed and unpossessed; objective and
subjective. The framework is then generalized to reasons for
belief, that is, to epistemic reasons, and combined with a
substantive, first-order commitment, namely that truth is the sole
right-maker for belief. The upshot is an account of the various
norms governing belief, including knowledge and rationality, and
the relations among them. According to it, the standards to which
belief is subject are various, but they are unified by an
underlying principle.
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