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Stanford
Department of Philosophy
School of Humanities and Sciences
DEPARTMENTAL EVENTS

Lecture: Reason

Date
Wed March 4th 2020, 3:30pm
Location
Building 300, Room 300

 

Speaker

John Broome

 

Abstract:

In recent philosophy, rationality has not been clearly distinguished from normativity. Indeed, one aim of the 'reasons first' movement is to reduce rationality to normativity. The tendency to confuse the two is encouraged by the ambiguity of the noncount noun 'reason', which can refer to either. I shall disambiguate the terminology, and then argue against the reductive claim that rationality consists in responding correctly to reasons.