Great news: Akshan’s paper, “Reasons Isolated from Good Reasoning” is now accepted for publication at The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Reasons Isolated from Good ReasoningOn a popular and influential view, normative reasons are premises in good reasoning, where good reasoning manifests a pattern of reasoning that normally preserves fittingness. I develop two counterexamples to this view: isolated pro tanto reasons that are either weak or normally overridden.