Retrospection

This paper argues from the rationality of nostalgia, affirmation, and regret to a principle of ‘specificity’: it can be rational to respond more strongly to facts that provide us with reasons than to the fact that such reasons exist.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Setiya, Kieran
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Michigan Publishing 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116130
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-8556