Instrumental Reasons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8087462 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Niko Kolodny (0000-0003-0812-6989, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Daniel Star (0009-0002-9447-8867) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199657889.013.32 |
| OpenAlex | W4234591943 |
| ISBN | 9780199657889 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
Often our reason for doing something is an “instrumental reason”: that doing that is a means to doing something else that we have reason to do. What principles govern this “instrumental transmission” of reasons from ends to means? Negatively, I argue against principles often invoked in the literature, which focus on necessary or sufficient means. Positively, I propose a principle, “General Transmission,” which answers to two intuitive desiderata: that reason transmits to means that are “probabilizing” and “nonsuperfluous” with respect to the relevant end. I then apply General Transmission to the debate over “detachment”: whether “wide-scope” reason for a material conditional or disjunction implies “narrow-scope” reason for the consequent or disjuncts
Epistemology · Focus (optics · Physics · Scope (computer science · Simple (philosophy · Telecommunications · Transmission (telecommunications · Computer Science · Free Will and Agency · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |