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- Title
Defending the wide-scope approach to instrumental reason.
- Authors
Way, Jonathan
- 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 the objections.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY; CAUSATION (Philosophy); NATURE; PHILOSOPHY of nature; ENDS &; means
- Publication
Philosophical Studies, 2010, Vol 147, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
0031-8116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11098-008-9277-2