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- Title
What is Reasoning?
- Authors
McHugh, Conor; Way, Jonathan
- Abstract
Reasoning is a certain kind of attitude-revision. What kind? The aim of this paper is to introduce and defend a new answer to this question, based on the idea that reasoning is a goodness-fixing kind. Our central claim is that reasoning is a functional kind: it has a constitutive point or aim that fixes the standards for good reasoning. We claim, further, that this aim is to get fitting attitudes. We start by considering recent accounts of reasoning due to Ralph Wedgwood and John Broome, and argue that, while these accounts contain important insights, they are not satisfactory: Wedgwood's rules out too much, and Broome's too little. We then introduce and defend our alternative account, discuss some of its implications and attractions, and, finally, consider objections.
- Subjects
REASONING; WEDGWOOD, Ralph; BROOME, John; ATTITUDE (Psychology); PRACTICAL reason
- Publication
Mind, 2018, Vol 127, Issue 505, p167
- ISSN
0026-4423
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/mind/fzw068