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Not so enticing reasons

Robertson, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8340-1317 2008. Not so enticing reasons. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 56 (6) , pp. 263-277.

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Abstract

A common view of the relation between oughts and reasons is that you ought to do something if and only if that is what you have most reason to do. One challenge to this comes from what Jonathan Dancy calls ‘enticing reasons.’ Dancy argues that enticing reasons never contribute to oughts and that it is false that if the only reasons in play are enticing reasons then you ought to do what you have most reason to do. After explaining how enticing reasons supposedly work and why accepting them may appear attractive, I firstly show why we are not committed to accepting them into our conceptual framework and then argue that no reasons work in the way enticing reasons are claimed to. Thus we should reject the category of enticing reasons entirely.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISSN: 1386-2820
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022 09:26
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/36367

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