Defending the wide-scope approach to instrumental reason
Defending the wide-scope approach to instrumental reason
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
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Way, Jonathan M.
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January 2010
Way, Jonathan M.
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Way, Jonathan M.
(2010)
Defending the wide-scope approach to instrumental reason.
Philosophical Studies, 147 (2), .
(doi:10.1007/s11098-008-9277-2).
Abstract
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
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