I discuss and compare Joseph Raz’s and Christine Korsgaard’s accounts of reasons for action. One fundamental disagreement separating the two approaches is the role that they assign to two central features of practical deliberation: Korsgaard assigns priority to identity-constituting practical principles, whereas for Raz reasons are the fundamental normative units. In the course of this comparison, two claims are defended: (1) Taking-up a realist stance vis-à-vis one’s reasons is a non-optional feature of one’s first-personal deliberative standpoint. This remains true even if this renders the workings of an agent’s reasons analogous to a placebo. (2) The motivational aspect of an agent’s reasons should not be conceived along causalist lines....
This thesis is an examination of the foundations of practical reason. Building on the later work of ...
This thesis investigates the prospects for an interpretivist account of practical reasons. The propo...
According to a common philosophical view of practical reasons, normative reasons for acting are inde...
I discuss and compare Joseph Raz’s and Christine Korsgaard’s accounts of reasons for action. One fun...
In his recent From Normativity to Responsibility Joseph Raz argues for three features of practical r...
Reasons for action are considerations in the light of which we act. But just what is it that we attr...
In this dissertation I develop a theory of practical reasons as such, and then I extend that theory ...
This thesis investigates the prospects for an interpretivist account of practical reasons. The propo...
In her book Self-Constitution, Christine Korsgaard unfolds an impressive chain of reasoning intended...
In my dissertation I explore the connection between intentional action and practical normativity fro...
The aim of this project is to make sense of the relationship between practical reasons and self-conc...
This paper looks at whether it is possible to unify the requirements of normative reasons with the r...
grantor: University of TorontoMy thesis argues that the debate about the nature of practic...
The present paper identifies a challenge for a certain view of practical reasons, according to which...
I start by explaining what attitude-related reasons are and why it is plausible to assume that, at l...
This thesis is an examination of the foundations of practical reason. Building on the later work of ...
This thesis investigates the prospects for an interpretivist account of practical reasons. The propo...
According to a common philosophical view of practical reasons, normative reasons for acting are inde...
I discuss and compare Joseph Raz’s and Christine Korsgaard’s accounts of reasons for action. One fun...
In his recent From Normativity to Responsibility Joseph Raz argues for three features of practical r...
Reasons for action are considerations in the light of which we act. But just what is it that we attr...
In this dissertation I develop a theory of practical reasons as such, and then I extend that theory ...
This thesis investigates the prospects for an interpretivist account of practical reasons. The propo...
In her book Self-Constitution, Christine Korsgaard unfolds an impressive chain of reasoning intended...
In my dissertation I explore the connection between intentional action and practical normativity fro...
The aim of this project is to make sense of the relationship between practical reasons and self-conc...
This paper looks at whether it is possible to unify the requirements of normative reasons with the r...
grantor: University of TorontoMy thesis argues that the debate about the nature of practic...
The present paper identifies a challenge for a certain view of practical reasons, according to which...
I start by explaining what attitude-related reasons are and why it is plausible to assume that, at l...
This thesis is an examination of the foundations of practical reason. Building on the later work of ...
This thesis investigates the prospects for an interpretivist account of practical reasons. The propo...
According to a common philosophical view of practical reasons, normative reasons for acting are inde...