Instrumental normativity and the practicable good: A Murdochian constitutivist account

Manuscrito 41 (4):349-388 (2018)
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The aim of this paper is to develop a constitutivist account of instrumental normativity (an account of the requirement to take the means to one’s end as the normative standard that constitutes intentional action) that overcomes the restrictions of the neo-Anscombean variant of constitutivism without reverting to the reductivism of Kantian constitutivism. I call this account “Murdochian”, for it relies on Iris Murdoch’s conception of the practicable good.

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10.1590/0100-6045.2018.v41n4.ev

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