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HomeUpcoming EventsMSPT Seminar: Benjamin Kiesewetter (ANU/HU Berlin): You Ought To Φ Only If You May Believe That You Ought To Φ
MSPT Seminar: Benjamin Kiesewetter (ANU/HU Berlin): You ought to Φ only if you may believe that you ought to Φ

Abstract: In this paper I present an argument for the claim that you ought to do something only if you may believe that you ought to do it. More exactly, I defend the following principle about normative reasons: An agent A has decisive reason to Φ only if she has sufficient reason to believe that she has decisive reason to Φ. I argue that this claim follows from the plausible assumption that it must always be possible for an agent to respond correctly to her reasons. In conclusion, I discuss some implications of this argument (given that some other standard assumptions about reasons hold). One such implication is that we are always in a position to be justified in believing all truths about what we have decisive reason (or ought) to do.

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  • Mon 23 Jun 2014, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

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Coombs Seminar Room D

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