Internal and External Reasons¶
Williams, B. (1981). Internal and External Reasons. The Philosophical Review.
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- Normativity
- Not all reason-giving: A reason to do something (hunger gives a reason to eat) is not automatically a normative claim; normativity involves the binding-force authority — a claim that something ought to be done, that the agent is bound to do it (categorically or given certain conditions), not merely that it is instrumentally advantageous.
This sourceWilliams Internal External Reasons internalism normativity.
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Williams conditions a reason-sentence on the agent's aims, but never states that normativity consists in binding-force authority.
“On the first, the truth of the sentence implies, very roughly, that A has some motive which will be served or furthered by his φ-ing, and if this turns out not to be so the sentence is false: there is a condition relating to the agent's aims, and if this is not satisfied it is not true to say, on this interpretation, that he has a reason to φ.”
- Not all reason-giving: A reason to do something (hunger gives a reason to eat) is not automatically a normative claim; normativity involves the binding-force authority — a claim that something ought to be done, that the agent is bound to do it (categorically or given certain conditions), not merely that it is instrumentally advantageous.
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