Being Realistic about Reasons

by T.M. Scanlon

Book Overview

T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications; that we would have no way of knowing what they are; and that the role of reasons in motivating and explaining action could not be explained if accepting a conclusion about reasons for action were a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199678480
• ISBN13: 9780199678488
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"