Volatile Reasons |
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Authors: | Jason D'Cruz |
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Affiliation: | University at Albany, State University of New York |
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Abstract: | I argue for the existence of a category of practical reasons which I call ‘Deliberation-Volatile Reasons’ or ‘DVRs’. DVRs have the distinguishing feature that their status as reasons for action is diminished when they are weighed in deliberation by the agent. I argue that DVRs are evidence of ‘deliberative blind spots’. I submit that an agent manifests a peculiar kind of practical irrationality in so far as she endeavours to find a deliberative path to what she has reason to do, when the discovery of such a path renders the destination inaccessible. |
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Keywords: | practical reason rationality deliberation spontaneity |
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