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Being Realistic about Reasons (Paperback)
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T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative
cognitivism-the view that there are irreducibly normative truths
about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections:
that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications;
that we would have no way of knowing what they are; and that the
role of reasons in motivating and explaining action could not be
explained if accepting a conclusion about reasons for action were a
kind of belief. Scanlon answers the first of these objections
within a general account of ontological commitment, applying to
mathematics as well as normative judgments. He argues that the
method of reflective equilibrium, properly understood, provides an
adequate account of how we come to know both normative truths and
mathematical truths, and that the idea of a rational agent explains
the link between an agent's normative beliefs and his or her
actions. Whether every statement about reasons for action has a
determinate truth value is a question to be answered by an overall
account of reasons for action, in normative terms. Since it seems
unlikely that there is such an account, the defense of normative
cognitivism offered here is qualified: statements about reasons for
action can have determinate truth values, but it is not clear that
all of them do. Along the way, Scanlon offers an interpretation of
the distinction between normative and non-normative claims, a new
account of the supervenience of the normative on the non-normative,
an interpretation of the idea of the relative strength of reasons,
and a defense of the method of reflective equilibrium.
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