Reasons and rationality

University essay from Lunds universitet/Praktisk filosofi

Author: Sven Nyholm; [2003]

Keywords: Williams; reasons; rationality; Systematic philosophy; ethics; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Systematisk filosofi; etik; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi; Philosophy and Religion;

Abstract: The questions that I will be discussing are: Q1: What is the relation (and difference) between normative reasons and motivating (and/or explanatory) reasons? and Q2: When are, or in virtue of what are, acts, desires or beliefs rational (or irrational)? Because the two subjects that I will discuss - reasons and rationality - are so closely related, I don't think that one can discuss one without mentioning the other. I shall, however, have more to say about Q1. Questions about reasons are, I believe, more fundamental than questions about rationality.

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