A Millian Objection to Reasons as Evidence

Utilitas 25 (3):417-420 (2013)
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Stephen Kearns and Daniel Star have recently proposed this thesis: [Reasons as Evidence: Necessarily, a fact F is a reason for an agent A to PHI

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Reasons and Impossibility.Bart Streumer - 2007 - Philosophical Studies 136 (3):351-384.
The meaning of 'ought'.Ralph Wedgwood - 2006 - In Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume 1. Clarendon Press. pp. 127-160.

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