Being Realistic about Reasons

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Being Realistic about Reasons
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Synopsis Being Realistic about Reasons by : T. M. Scanlon

Book excerpt: Is what we have reason to do a matter of fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved, how can we know it, and how do reasons motivate and explain action? In this concise and lucid book T.M. Scanlon offers answers, with a qualified defence of normative cognitivism - the view that there are normative truths about reasons for action.


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