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Reflection Without Regress
Author(s) -
Davia Cory
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/papq.12265
Subject(s) - creatures , agency (philosophy) , reflection (computer programming) , action (physics) , epistemology , philosophy , sociology , natural (archaeology) , history , computer science , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , programming language
Regress arguments show that to do something for a reason, one does not have to have reflectively endorsed that reason. This might seem to establish that reflection does not play a fundamental role in agency. This paper argues that this conclusion rests on too narrow a conception of agency. If agents are not just creatures who act for reasons but also creatures who can take ownership of the reasons for which they act, then there is a central role for reflection to play in agency even if it's not the role that philosophers of action have typically envisioned for it.

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