Acting for the Right Reasons

Alison Hills (Oxford University)

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY

Monday 10 November 2014, 17:30-19:30
Practical Reasoning Seminar
Room G34, Senate House, WC1
Acting for the Right Reasons, Alison Hills (Oxford)

I begin with the idea of acting for a reason. I distinguish Humean and
Kantian approaches to this question and sketch some familiar objections to
them. Then I defend a third possibility: a dispositional account of acting
for a reason. I then apply this approach to the question of acting for moral
reasons; that is, doing the right thing for the right reason.

Full Series 2014/15:
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Admission Free. All welcome.
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