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Dancy on Acting for the Right Reason

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: It is a truism that agents can do the right action for the right reason. To put the point in terms more familiar to ethicists, it is a truism that one’s motivating reason can be one’s normative reason. In this short note, I will argue that Jonathan Dancy’s preferred view about how this is possible faces a dilemma. Dancy has the choice between accounting for two plausible constraints while at the same time holding an outlandish philosophy of mind by his own lights or giving up his view's central tenet. At the end, I will suggest a view similar to Dancy’s that avoids the dilemma.

Source: Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

DOI: 10.26556/jesp.v2i3.120

Author: Errol Lord

Institutions: University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Pennsylvania

Language: English

Topic: Philosophical Ethics and Theory

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2167658230

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Cites: 4

Cited by: 11

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