Reasons thin and thick

Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 288-304

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EID: 60949838749     PISSN: 0022362X     EISSN: 19398549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/jphil200310069     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. "Internal and External Reasons" (1980), reprinted in Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers, 1973-1980 (New York: Cambridge, 1981), pp. 101-13;
2. and "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame" (1989)
3. reprinted in Making Sense of Humanity and Other Philosophical Papers, 1982-1993 (New York: Cambridge, 1995), pp. 35-45.
4. Robert Audi makes the distinction in roughly these terms; see "Acting for Reasons," Philosophical Review, XCV (1986): 511-46, p. 513.
5. Williams speaks of a "local advisory model" of reasons - Making Sense of Humanity, pp. 208-09.
6. See my Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment (Cambridge: Harvard, 1990), pp. 160-64, for this account of the concept of a reason.
7. "Truth in Ethics," Ratio (new series), VIII, 3 (December 1995): 227-42, p. 237. He adds some qualifications, but what I have to say will not depend on them.
8. For the history of this point, see Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Cambridge: Harvard, 1985), note 7 to chapter 8, pp. 217-18.
9. "Truth in Ethics," p. 239.
10. I attempt such an account for the term 'lewd' in "Thick Concepts and Warrant for Feelings," The Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXVI (1992): 267-83.