dc.contributor.author | Sandis, Constantine | |
dc.contributor.editor | Schumann, Gunnar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-13T01:04:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-11-13T01:04:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-06-11 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sandis , C 2019 , Are Reasons Like Shampoo? in G Schumann (ed.) , Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography: Causal and Teleological Approaches . Routledge . | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781138584402 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9780429506048 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 16413144 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 2ae74f8a-2db7-4fa0-a2ce-51560ffad08f | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85106122599 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/21883 | |
dc.description.abstract | This essay considers various constraints placed by philosophers on what they take to be a shared concept of a reason for action. I try to show that these constraints are incompatible with one another, proceeding to argue that we would therefore do better to embrace a conceptual pluralism. On such a pluralism, there is no such thing as the concept of a reason for action. Interminable debates about the nature of reasons for action arise precisely because no single thing called a 'reason for action' can perform all the varying functions that philosophers require of it. As with products such as three-in-one shampoos, each individual function is performed at the expense of others. Unlike such stuffs, however, some of the desired functions of reasons cannot be combined at all. I conclude that neither disjunctivist nor anti-disjunctivist accounts of reasons for action are capable of providing a unifying account of them. | en |
dc.format.extent | 19 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Routledge | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography: Causal and Teleological Approaches | |
dc.rights | Embargoed | |
dc.title | Are Reasons Like Shampoo? | en |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Humanities | |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2020-11-29 | |
dc.relation.school | School of Humanities | |
dc.description.versiontype | Final Accepted Version | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-06-11 | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | Other | |
rioxxterms.type | Other | |
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herts.rights.accesstype | Embargoed | |