NDLI: Normativity and self-relations

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Levy, Y.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The paper criticizes two prominent accounts which purport to explain normativity by appealing to some relation that one bears to oneself. Michael Bratman argues that one has reason to be formally coherent because otherwise one would fail to govern oneself. And David Velleman argues that one has reason to be formally coherent because otherwise one would be less intelligible to oneself. Both Bratman and Velleman argue in quite different ways that rational coherence is normative because it is necessary for the instantiation or promotion of the independently normative self-relation they invoke. But the paper presents a similar scenario which arguably exposes a failure of extensional adequacy common to both accounts: one can instantiate the self-relation in question without being formally coherent. A brief diagnosis is offered for why two such different accounts turn out to be vulnerable to a similar counterexample, suggesting that other accounts which appeal to self-relations in a broadly similar way might also suffer from the problem identified here.
Starting Page	359
Ending Page	374
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00318116
Journal	Philosophical Studies
Volume Number	172
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15730883
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-03-05
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Normativity Rationality Instrumental rationality Self-governance Self-intelligibility Philosophy Epistemology Philosophy of Mind Ethics Metaphysics Philosophy of Language
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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