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Was Sally's reason for running from the bear that she thought it was chasing her

Author(s)
Stout, Rowland  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/4960
Date Issued
2008-11
Date Available
2013-11-20T09:00:11Z
Abstract
Sally thinks she is being chased by a bear, and runs away. Let us suppose that running away makes sense in the circumstance.1 It seems clear that her reason for running is that a bear is chasing her. But it also seems that her reason for running is that she thinks a bear is chasing her.2 Indeed it is sometimes asserted that her real reason cannot be that a bear is chasing her, but must be merely that she thinks or believes that a bear is chasing her. For example, Michael Smith has argued as follows:
Given that an agent who has a motivating reason to φ is in a state that is in this way potentially explanatory of her φ-ing, it is then natural to suppose that her motivating reason is itself psychologically real. … By contrast with normative reasons, then, which seem to be truths … motivating reasons would seem to be psychological states, states that play a certain explanatory role in providing action. (Smith 1994, p. 96)
Type of Material
Book Chapter
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Copyright (Published Version)
Chapters © their individual authors 2009
Subjects

Psychological state

Motivational state

Normative reason

Moral luck

DOI
10.1057/9780230582972
Web versions
http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/staff/stout/sally.pdf
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Journal
Sandis, C. (eds.). New Essays on the Explanation of Action
ISBN
9780230522022 HB
9780230582972 PDF
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