Motivational internalism: The powers and limits of practical reasoning

Philosophia 19 (4):417-36 (1989)
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My aim in this paper is to articulate and defend a version of motivational internalism. The simplest version is a crude instrumentalism according to which reasoning can generate motivation in us only by identifying means to ends that we already desire. The view advanced here is much less restrictive.

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