Parfit's Case Against Subjectivism

In Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 6: Volume 6. Oxford University Press (2011)
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I argue that Parfit's On What Matters does not make a compelling case against subjective accounts of reasons for action.

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