Intrinsic values and reasons for action

Philosophical Issues 19 (1):342-363 (2009)
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What reasons for action do we have? What explains why we have these reasons? This paper articulates some of the basic structural features of a theory that would provide answers to these questions. According to this theory, reasons for action are all grounded in intrinsic values, but in a way that makes room for a thoroughly non-consequentialist view of the way in which intrinsic values generate reasons for aaction.

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10.1111/j.1533-6077.2009.00172.x

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