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- Title
The symmetry of rational requirements.
- Authors
Way, Jonathan
- Abstract
Some irrational states can be avoided in more than one way. For example, if you believe that you ought to A you can avoid akrasia by intending to A or by dropping the belief that you ought to A. This supports the claim that some rational requirements are wide-scope. For instance, the requirement against akrasia is a requirement to intend to A or not believe that you ought to A. But some writers object that this Wide-Scope view ignores asymmetries between the different ways of avoiding irrationality. In this paper I defend the Wide-Scope view against recent objections of this sort from Mark Schroeder and Niko Kolodny. I argue that once we are clear about what the Wide-Scope view is committed to-and, importantly, what it is not-we can see that Schroeder and Kolodny's objections fail.
- Subjects
SYMMETRY; AKRASIA; DELUSIONS; KOLODNY, Niko; SCHROEDER, Mark
- Publication
Philosophical Studies, 2011, Vol 155, Issue 2, p227
- ISSN
0031-8116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11098-010-9563-7