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    • Acting for a Reason 

      Korsgaard, Christine (Oxford University Press, 2008)
      Starting from the debate over whether practical reasons are mental states or the facts to which those mental states are a response, this chapter argues that being motivated by a practical reason must be a reflexive form ...
    • Aristotle's Function Argument 

      Korsgaard, Christine (Oxford University Press, 2008)
      In Nicomachean Ethics 1.7, Aristotle claims that to discover the human good we must identify the function of a human being. He argues that the human function is rational activity. Our good is therefore rational activity ...
    • Justice, Responsibility, and the Demands of Equality 

      Scanlon, Thomas (Oxford University Press, 2006)
      This essay considers the disagreement between Cohen and Rawls on the question of whether individuals should be held responsible for their tastes and preferences. It notes the difference in principle, since the primary goods ...
    • Mistaking Randomness for Free Will 

      Ebert, Jeffrey Paul; Wegner, Daniel M. (Elsevier, 2011)
      Belief in free will is widespread. The present research considered one reason why people may believe that actions are freely chosen rather than determined: they attribute randomness in behavior to free will. Experiment 1 ...