Reasons Isolated from Good Reasoning

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Reasons Isolated from Good Reasoning

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 Reasoning
On 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.