A note on means-end reasoning: knowledge, reasons and fate
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Abstract In this note, I argue that knowledge of an action’s effect undermines agent’s reason to act. This undermining occurs in some cases bringing about the past, but also forwards causation. consider suggestion it is not truth reasons act, giving rise spectre fatalism. Thankfully, can be banished.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Asian Journal of Philosophy
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2731-4642']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-022-00040-4