Akshan de Alwis' paper, “Reasons Isolated from Good Reasoning,” accepted at The Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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Akshan de Alwis' paper, “Reasons Isolated from Good Reasoning,” accepted at The Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Akshan de Alwis' paper, “Reasons Isolated from Good Reasoning,” is accepted for publication at The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.


Abstract: 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.