Being Realistic about Reasons
Author
T. M. Scanlon (Alford Professor Of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, And Civil Polity, Alford Professor
Is what we have reason to do a matter of fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved, how can we know it, and how do reasons motivate and explain action? In this concise and lucid book T. M. Scanlon offers answers, with a qualified defense of normative cognitivism-the view that there are normative truths about reasons for action.