Contrastive Reasons
ISBN: 9780198785934
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
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Subjects: Philosophy Moral Philosophy Metaphysics/ Epistemology;

When we deliberate about what to do or what to believe, we often have to weigh up competing considerations, or reasons, for and against the options. What we should do, in the end, is what these reasons most strongly support, even if there's something to be said for the other options. Justin Snedegar explores the ways in which our reasons supporting an option depend on the specific alternatives to which we are comparing it. The view developed in ContrastiveReasons should have consequences for philosophers' theories of how we should think about what to do and what to believe.

Justin Snedegar is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2013, and his BA in mathematics and philosophy from West Virginia University in 2008. His work in metaethics and the theory of rationality has been published in several journals and edited volumes including Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Philosophical Studies.

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