Coons, Christian and Faraci, David (2010) 'First-personal authority and the normativity of rationality.', Philosophia., 38 (4). pp. 733-740.
Abstract
In “Vindicating the Normativity of Rationality,” Nicholas Southwood proposes that rational requirements are best understood as demands of one’s “first-personal standpoint.” Southwood argues that this view can “explain the normativity or reason-giving force” of rationality by showing that they “are the kinds of thing that are, by their very nature, normative.” We argue that the proposal fails on three counts: First, we explain why demands of one’s first-personal standpoint cannot be both reason-giving and resemble requirements of rationality. Second, the proposal runs headlong into the now familiar “bootstrapping” objection that helped illuminate the need to vindicate the normativity of rationality in the first place. Lastly, even if Southwood is right—the demands of rationality just are the demands or our first-personal standpoints—the explanation as to why our standpoints generate reasons will entail that we sometimes have no reason at all to be rational.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (196Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-010-9250-0 |
Publisher statement: | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Philosophia. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-010-9250-0 |
Date accepted: | 15 March 2010 |
Date deposited: | 04 September 2018 |
Date of first online publication: | December 2010 |
Date first made open access: | No date available |
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