Key works |
A great deal of the recent literature has
focused on Bernard Williams’ defence of his ‘internal reasons’ theory, a
version of the desire-based theory, in his Williams 1979. Some central contributions to the literature on
Williams’ view are Korsgaard 1986, McDowell 1995, and Parfit 1997. There is also a lot of recent literature arguing against desire-based theories of reasons. See, for instance, Darwall 1983, Korsgaard 1997, Nagel 1970, Scanlon 1998, Parfit 2001. For a recent defence of a desire-based theory, see Schroeder 2007. |