Index
‘a reason to’, 9
‘Why?’ questions, general, 166
‘Why F?’ questions, 5
‘Why F?’ questions, normative,
abilities, general versus specific, 79
affective attitudes, 126
aim of belief, 119
American pragmatism, historical, 193
Anscombe,
anti-Humean movement, 17
arguing, speech act of, 167
Army case, 174
Arpaly and Schroeder, 12
background conditions, 89
Bader, 67
Benmakhlouf, 13
Boghossian, 120
bribes, 217
buck-passing account of value, 32
cabbage case, 102
cancelability test, of implicatures, 69
cancelling considerations, 86
ceteris paribus, good reasoning, 61
Chappell, 42
chocolate cream pizza case, 67
cogency, 61
cognitive homelessness, 25
constitution of rightness, 104
constraint of holism, 128
Contextualism, 109
contrastivism about reasons, 186
correctness for belief, 120
Crisp, 32
criticisability, 81
D’Arms and Jacobson, 32
Deductive Nomological model of explanation, 109
defeasible patterns of reasoning, 60
deliberative ought, 102
delusional subject, 77
deontic fact, 86
despicable demon case, 33
deterrent actions, 77
Dietz, 16
disposition to be moved, 57
dogmatism, 192
Drucker, 134
Dutant and Littlejohn, 162
Echeverri,
enabling conditions, explanation of, 89
enabling conditions, the problem of, 65
entailing evidence, 90
Epley, 134
equivocal evidence, 200
Erotetic logic, 166
Erotetic view of reasons
as Dualism about reasons, 170
full statement of, 170
in favour of, 177
introduction of, 5
succinct statement of, 168
evidentialism–pragmatism debate, 194
explaining, speech act of, 167
explaining versus arguing, 168
explanation by causes and explanation by reasons,
Explanation view of reasons
Axiological version, explanation-plus-value-based variant of, 107
Axiological version, value promotion variant of, 123
Axiological version of, 106
Deontic version of, 85
the most general form of, 84
Right-maker version of, 103
explanations versus arguments, general, 167
Fassio, 119
fit-making considerations, 128
fittingness, 41
fittingness first, 42
Fogal and Sylvan, 21
Foley, 193
formal object of emotions, 132
Frege, 13
fruitfulness of theorising with reasons, 30
functions of evidence, 155
ice-cream case, 77
ideal adviser view of reasons, 50
ideal and well-informed self, 58
implicature, 68
inclinations to believe, 59
Internalism about reasons, 77
internalism/externalism about epistemic justification, 26
internalist accessibilism, 26
internalist mentalism, 26
irrelevant truths, 167
James, 199
Lasonen-Aarnio, 81
Lassiter, 134
level of a theoretician versus level of an agent, 191
Littlejohn, 144
Livet, 13
logical positivism, 14
Lord, 50
Lord and Maguire, 91
Löschke, 32
Maguire, , , , 210
Markovits,
Marušić, 202
McKeever and Ridge, 144
McKeon, 167
McNaughton and Rawling, 144
meaningful life, 1
Melden, 13
Mele, 79
Meylan, 134
Millgram, 78
moderate pragmatism, 193
monotonicity, 61
Monty Hall show,
moral psychology, 16
motiva credibilitatis, 10
Mulligan, 134
Na’aman, 134
necessary truths, the problem of, 140
neo-Humean, approach in philosophy of action, 16
Non-availability of good reasoning, the problem of, 70
non-cognitivism in meta-ethics, 17
non-observational knowledge of our reasons, 14
norm of belief, 120
normative reasons
as considerations that speak in favour of an action or an attitude, 10
normative testimony, 147
Nutella pizza case, 100
P therefore p, 175
Paakkunainen,
pars pro toto explanations, 94
parsimony in normative domain, 31
patterns of questions, 169
Pelser, 134
Pickard, 81
Piller, 33
Pollock, 61
pragmatism, 193
prima facie oughts, 91
Prior and Prior, 166
probabilistic conception of evidential support, 139
process reliabilism, 193
promise-accident case, 54
Promotion, 124
Pryor, 192
psychologism in logic, 13
psychology, 13
radical pragmatism, 193
Rational Internalism, 51
rationalisation, 51
Reason Basicness, 29
Reasoning view of reasons
Arguments in favor of, 48
first generation of, 40
good dispositions of practical thought version of, 41
the most general form of, 39
norms of practical reasoning version of, 42
premise of a good, fittingness preserving pattern of reasoning version of, 41
second generation of, 40
as a view concerned with being moved not with acting, 57
reasonology, 13
reasons
accrual of, 67
as considerations that bear on a question, 166
as explanatorily fundamental, 28
attitudinal versus epistemic for emotions, 135
desiderata for a theory of, 162
eliminitivism about, 164
elusive, 73
explanatory,
favouring, 66
internal versus external, 198
massively outweighed, 77
motivating,
as motives, 198
normative, introduction of, 10
objective, 19
possessed, 20
pragmatic (for belief), 193
pro tanto, 88
pro toto, 87
Rationality and, 188
sans phrase, 125
self-effacing, 78
state-given versus object-given, 33
subjective, 20
subsidiary, 86
as unanalysable, 29
unpossessed subjective,
Response constraint, 73,
responsibility, 81
rightness, 104
Rossi, 73
Rowland, 30
satisfactoriness, 45
vos Savant, 23
Scarantino and de Sousa, 134
self-undermining beliefs, 72
Shafer-Landau, 78
Shah and Velleman, 193
Sher, 68
Sinclair, 78
Singer, 94
Snedeger, 186
Sobel, 78
social sciences, 13
Soup case, 172
de Sousa, 132
Srinivasan, 81
Steglich-Petersen and Skipper, 206
Streumer, 81
Stroud, 202
subagential aims, 121
surprise party case, 78
Sylvan, 19
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