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The Humean Theory of Reasons holds that if there is a reason for an agent to do something, then that agent must have a desire served by doing it. This ignores a distinction between “Agent has an X” and “There is an X”. Statements of the second type leave the question of whose X it is open. “There is a reason for an agent to do X” implies that there is a desire that will be served by the agent doing X, but leaves open the possibility that the relevant desire belong to somebody else. A moral reason to do something does not depend on an agent having a desire served by doing it. It depends on others having reasons to give the agent a reason to do it. The desires served by manufacturing a reason are those of the people who do the manufacturing.
Advisor: | Fileva, Iskra |
Commitee: | Heathwood, Chris, Norcross, Alastair |
School: | University of Colorado at Boulder |
Department: | Philosophy |
School Location: | United States -- Colorado |
Source: | MAI 82/3(E), Masters Abstracts International |
Source Type: | DISSERTATION |
Subjects: | Ethics, Philosophy |
Keywords: | Central Problem of Morality, Desirism, Hume, Humean Theory of Reasons, Internal reasons, Reasons for action |
Publication Number: | 28021992 |
ISBN: | 9798672126975 |