| FT-51405-03 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | George Schueler | The Objectivity of Practical Reason | 6/1/2003 - 7/31/2003 | $5,000.00 | George | | Schueler | | | | Regents of the University of New Mexico | Albuquerque | NM | 87131-0001 | USA | 2003 | Ethics | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
This project involves examining the idea that "practical reasons" are completely objective. A widely accepted view in contemporary moral philosophy, the "desire-belief" account of practical rationality, entails that this is not so. In my last two books I have argued for a different account of the role of practical rationality in the explanation of actions. In this project I want to turn from the question of how reasons can possibly move us to act, to the question of how, and whether, reasons can be objective. In fact I think that the view that reasons are objective is entailed by the account I have given of the way explanations of actions in terms of the agents' reasons actually work. |