Desires and Practical Reasons

The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 9:123-128 (2006)
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This paper refutes a common and influential thesis about the conditions under which desires provide agents with practical reasons. That thesis is that if any agent. A, has a desire which A could satisfy by (ping, then A has a reason—a minimal reason, at least—to (p. Although this thesis comes close to stating a truth, it falls short.

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10.5840/wcp212006918

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