... everything many of us want to say about population ethics. But, whatever the answer, the point remains that background conditions are a powerful and underappreciated tool in population ethics. ethics population ethics the Procreation Asymmetry procreation normative reasons holism It is clear...

...Massimiliano Carrara; Davide Fassio RC features in many contemporary debates on practical and epistemic reasons, and it is entailed by most Humean accounts of reasons and by various forms of perspectivism. ⁵ A standard rationale for RC is that normative reasons have the essential role...

...Federico L G Faroldi; Tudor Protopopescu Abstract In this paper we argue that normative reasons are hyperintensional and put forward a formal account of this thesis. That reasons are hyperintensional means that a reason for a proposition does not imply that it is also a reason for a logically...

... case, the agent φs in a way that manifests their belief that p and their treating p as a normative reason for them to φ so that a statement is true of them. This also happens in the good case. It’s just that in the good case something more is going on: the agent also counts as responding...

... it is unsound. I go on to show why the tension Cowie thinks is fatal to CG arguments evades the fundamental issue at stake in contemporary debates over moral error theory, namely, whether categorical normative reasons exist. companions in guilt error theory moral reasons epistemic reasons categorical...

..., they mistakenly deviate from in opposite directions. I argue that, conceptually, we should think (as Sidgwick did but Ross did not) in terms of the generically normative and (as Ross did but Sidgwick did not) in terms of the contributory; that is, in terms of normative reasons. W. D. Ross Henry Sidgwick...

... understanding and perhaps refuting those arguments. The chapter distinguishes two main concepts of reasons for action: normative reasons and motivating reasons. It provides an overview of the main assumptions of the Reasoning View about each type of reason, situating the view in the literature. It gives...

...0 06 01 2025 This chapter broaches the question of the normative significance of reasons of taste: normative reasons that appear to be grounded in facts about agents’ contingent concerns (what they want, like, prefer, or care about). Classical Internalists have argued that every normative...

...0 06 01 2025 This chapter discusses two theses assumed by the rest of the book. The Abundance thesis states that there is an abundance of different normative reasons concepts: concepts of legal reasons, prudential reasons, moral reasons, reasons of etiquette, and so on. The Authority thesis...

...0 06 01 2025 Several authors have recently emphasized a distinction between subjective normative reasons and objective normative reasons, the latter being normative reasons in the sense theorized about here. It has rarely been clear, however, what theoretical work subjective reasons...

... hold one another and ourselves responsible through blame, we take up a second-person standpoint and implicitly address moral demands. This standpoint requires us to presuppose, not just that there were decisive normative reasons to have acted otherwise, but that these reasons were available...

... and Parfit, we argue, against Hume and his followers, that normative reasons for actions are objective. One objection to this view is that it is unclear how reason can motivate action. Another is that psychopaths appear to be able to reason adequately, but do not act morally. Both of these objections...

... that what you are obligated to do is determined by the normative reasons you possess. This view is anchored in the thought that our obligations have to be action-guiding in a certain sense—we have to be able to act for the reasons that obligate us. The chapter argues that we have this ability—the ability...

... (London: John Bohn, 1839), vol. 1, 77 . Hawthorne John Hornsby Jennifer Hyman John norms reasons Stanley Jason Unger Peter Hieronymi Pamela Littlejohn Clayton reason action Price A W Davis Wayne Sandis Constantine Sehon Scott Hobbes Thomas epistemic reasons epistemic rationality...

... to use the reason as the reason that it is. Finally, it is argued that meeting the epistemic condition is a background condition for being in a position to manifest the relevant know-how. The Murderer’s Boots Feldman Richard Lewis David normative reasons Parfit Derek Schroeder Mark Sylvan Kurt Way...

...Amongst other things, John Broome’s Rationality Through Reasoning provides an account of normative reasons. Crucial to this account is the idea of a weighing explanation. Pro tanto reasons are facts cited in weighing explanations of what one ought to do; facts that have weights...

... sufficient reasons What We Owe to Each Other Scanlon meaning moral status choice From Normativity to Responsibility Raz conclusive reasons exclusionary reasons overriding Practical Reason and Norms Raz justification requirement normative reasons the balance of reasons supererogation...

... of why you did the right thing. The reasons for which you act—your motivating reasons—must meet some further conditions. This chapter defends a new account of these conditions. On this account, creditworthiness requires that your motivating reasons be normative reasons, and that the principles...

...This chapter discusses the notion of a reason for action. It begins by distinguishing epistemic from practical reasons, and suggests that all practical reasons must be grounded in well-being. It distinguishes between explanatory (including motivating) reasons, and normative reasons. Normative...