Resolutions provide reasons or: “how the Cookie Monster quit cookies”
Publication Date
2021Journal Title
Synthese
ISSN
0039-7857
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
199
Issue
1-2
Pages
4829-4840
Language
en
Type
Article
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VoR
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Bales, A., & Handfield, T. (2021). Resolutions provide reasons or: “how the Cookie Monster quit cookies”. Synthese, 199 (1-2), 4829-4840. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-03005-3
Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Why should we typically act in accordance with our resolutions when faced with the temptation to do otherwise? A much-maligned view suggests that we should do so because resolutions themselves provide us with reasons for action. We defend a version of this view, on which resolutions provide <jats:italic>second-order</jats:italic> reasons. This account avoids the objections typically taken to be fatal for the view that resolutions are reasons, including the prominent bootstrapping objections.</jats:p>
Keywords
Resolutions, Temptation, Reasons, Bootstrapping arguments
Sponsorship
Australian Research Council (FT180100067)
Identifiers
s11229-020-03005-3, 3005
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-03005-3
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/330876
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