Defending the wide-scope approach to instrumental reason
Way, Jonathan M. (2010) Defending the wide-scope approach to instrumental reason. Philosophical Studies, 147, (2), 213-233. (doi:10.1007/s11098-008-9277-2)
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The Wide-Scope approach to instrumental reason holds that the requirement to intend the necessary means to your ends should be understood as a requirement to either intend the means, or else not intend the end. In this paper I explain and defend a neglected version of this approach. I argue that three serious objections to Wide-Scope accounts turn on a certain assumption about the nature of the reasons that ground the Wide-Scope requirement. The version of the Wide- Scope approach defended here allows us to reject this assumption, and so defuse theobjections
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSN: | 0031-8116 (print) 1573-0883 (electronic) |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities > Philosophy |
| ePrint ID: | 177909 |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/177909 |
| Deposited On: | 23 Mar 2011 13:40 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 08:52 |
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