A New Worry for the Humean Internalist |
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Authors: | Crystal Thorpe |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, 330 Griffin-Floyd Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-8545, USA |
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Abstract: | The Humean internalist finds Humean motivational theses and reasons internalism to be independently attractive. She therefore
combines them, in the hope of creating a theory of reasons that is attractive for all of the reasons that each thesis is attractive.
On this score, she succeeds. However, there is a drawback. Those who build a theory of reasons by combining Humean motivational
theses and reasons internalism face a dilemma. If you combine these views, either you are committed to a theory of reasons
that allows all of a person’s reasons to simultaneously change, erratically and randomly, or you are committed to a theory
of reasons that fixes a person’s reasons at birth, in which case they remain stable and unchanging over a lifetime. Neither
alternative is attractive. Humean internalism cannot navigate a path between these two extremes, and this should worry the
Humean internalist. |
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