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dc.contributor.authorKorsgaard, Christine
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-23T13:58:26Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationKorsgaard, Christine M. 2008. The normativity of instrumental reason. In The Constitution of Agency, 26-68. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Originally published in Garrett Cullity and Berys Gaut, eds., Ethics and Practical Reason. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:5139668
dc.description.abstractMost philosophers think it uncontroversial that practical reason requires us to take the means to our ends, but have been silent about the normative foundation of this requirement. The interesting question, almost everyone agrees, is whether practical reason requires anything more, such as a principle of morality or prudence. This chapter examines the question what makes instrumental reason normative. It articulates the answers implicit in the rationalist and empiricist traditions, criticizing the former for its inability to explain how we can be motivated by the instrumental principle, and the latter for its inability to explain how we can be guided by it. It argues that the normativity of instrumental reason, like that of moral reason, must be grounded in the agent's autonomy, and also that there can be no requirement to take the means to our ends unless there are also required ends.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipPhilosophyen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199552733.003.0002en_US
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://www.oxfordscholarship.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/oso/private/content/philosophy/9780199552733/p016.html#acprof-9780199552733-chapter-2en_US
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dc.subjectintrumental reasonen_US
dc.subjectcategorical imperativeen_US
dc.subjectrationalisten_US
dc.subjectnormativityen_US
dc.subjectKanten_US
dc.subjectHumeen_US
dc.subjectempiricisten_US
dc.subjectdesireen_US
dc.subjectautonomyen_US
dc.titleThe Normativity of Instrumental Reasonen_US
dash.depositing.authorKorsgaard, Christine
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dc.identifier.doi10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199552733.003.0002*
dash.contributor.affiliatedKorsgaard, Christine


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