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Appears in Collections: | Law and Philosophy Journal Articles |
Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
Title: | Defending the Wide-Scope Approach to Instrumental Reason |
Author(s): | Way, Jonathan |
Contact Email: | j.m.way@stir.ac.uk |
Keywords: | Instrumental reason Wide-scope Object-given and state-given reasons Broome Setiya Kolodny Reasons Rationality |
Issue Date: | Jan-2010 |
Citation: | Way J (2010) Defending the Wide-Scope Approach to Instrumental Reason, Philosophical Studies, 147 (2), pp. 213-233. |
Abstract: | The Wide-Scope approach to instrumental reason holds that the requirement to intend the necessary means to your ends should be understood as a requirement to either intend the means, or else not intend the end. In this paper I explain and defend a neglected version of this approach. I argue that three serious objections to Wide-Scope accounts turn on a certain assumption about the nature of the reasons that ground the Wide-Scope requirement. The version of the Wide-Scope approach defended here allows us to reject this assumption, and so defuse the objections. |
DOI Link: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-008-9277-2 |
Rights: | Published in Philosophical Studies by Springer. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
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