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Fittingness first

Fittingness first
Fittingness first
According to the fitting-attitudes account of value, for X to be good is for it to be fitting to value X. But what is it for an attitude to be fitting? A popular recent view is that it is for there to be sufficient reason for the attitude. In this paper we argue that proponents of the fitting-attitudes account should reject this view and instead take fittingness as basic. In this way they avoid the notorious ‘wrong kind of reason’ problem, and can offer attractive accounts of reasons and good reasoning in terms of fittingness.
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575-606
McHugh, Conor
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Way, Jonathan
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McHugh, Conor
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Way, Jonathan
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McHugh, Conor and Way, Jonathan (2016) Fittingness first. Ethics, 126 (3), 575-606. (doi:10.1086/684712).

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According to the fitting-attitudes account of value, for X to be good is for it to be fitting to value X. But what is it for an attitude to be fitting? A popular recent view is that it is for there to be sufficient reason for the attitude. In this paper we argue that proponents of the fitting-attitudes account should reject this view and instead take fittingness as basic. In this way they avoid the notorious ‘wrong kind of reason’ problem, and can offer attractive accounts of reasons and good reasoning in terms of fittingness.

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Accepted/In Press date: 30 July 2015
Published date: April 2016
Organisations: Philosophy

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Local EPrints ID: 380387
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/380387
ISSN: 0014-1704
PURE UUID: 7d4f9a8a-f21a-4e55-ac7e-52db1da23fb6

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Date deposited: 14 Sep 2015 12:15
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 20:58

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