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dc.contributor.authorSandis, Constantine
dc.contributor.editorSchumann, Gunnar
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-13T01:04:44Z
dc.date.available2019-11-13T01:04:44Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-11
dc.identifier.citationSandis , C 2019 , Are Reasons Like Shampoo? in G Schumann (ed.) , Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography: Causal and Teleological Approaches . Routledge .
dc.identifier.isbn9781138584402
dc.identifier.isbn9780429506048
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dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85106122599
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/21883
dc.description.abstractThis 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
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
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dc.titleAre Reasons Like Shampoo?en
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