Ethics 114 (3):391-423 (2004)
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The paper presents and discusses the so-called Wrong Kind of Reasons Problem (WKR problem) that arises for the fitting-attitudes analysis of value. This format of analysis is exemplified for example by Scanlon's buck-passing account, on which an object's value consists in the existence of reasons to favour the object- to respond to it in a positive way. The WKR problem can be put as follows: It appears that in some situations we might well have reasons to have pro-attitudes toward objects that are not valuable. Or vice versa: we might have reasons not to have pro-attitudes toward some valuable objects.
The paper goes through several attempts to solve (or dissolve) the WKR problem and argues that none of them is fully satisfactory.
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Keywords | value fitting attitudes wrong kind of reasons WKR Scanlon Ewing Parfit ought good |
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DOI | 10.1086/381694 |
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