Are there distinctively moral reasons?

A dogma of contemporary normative theorizing holds that some reasons are distinctively moral while others are not. Call this view Reasons Pluralism. This essay looks at four approaches to vindicating the apparent distinction between moral and non-moral reasons. In the end, however, all are found wan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Forcehimes, Andrew T., Semrau, Luke
Other Authors: School of Humanities
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90163
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48438
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Summary:A dogma of contemporary normative theorizing holds that some reasons are distinctively moral while others are not. Call this view Reasons Pluralism. This essay looks at four approaches to vindicating the apparent distinction between moral and non-moral reasons. In the end, however, all are found wanting. Though not dispositive, the failure of these approaches supplies strong evidence that the dogma of Reasons Pluralism is ill-founded.