Reasons and practical possibility

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62 (9-10):1104-1135 (2019)
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According to a common thesis about normative reasons for action, you have a reason to perform a given action only if you can act for that reason. This thesis has long had broad appeal and i...

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Ethics without principles.Jonathan Dancy - 2004 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Being Realistic About Reasons.Thomas Scanlon - 2014 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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