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Reasons, rationalization, and rationality

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Philosophy
dc.contributor.kuauthorDemircioğlu, Erhan
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-19T10:30:12Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I provide an answer to the question “what is it for a reason to be the reason for which a belief is held?” After arguing against the causal account of the reason-for-which connection, I present what I call the rationalization account, according to which a reason R a subject S has for a belief P is the reason for which S holds P just in case R is the premise in S’s rationalization for P, where the argument from R to P becomes S’s rationalization in virtue of her endorsing it. In order to bring explicitly into view the version of the rationalization account I aim to argue for, I draw two distinctions, one between occurrent and dispositional endorsement and the other between personal and public endorsement. I show that the version of the rationalization account thus clarified receives intuitive support from various cases and survives some formidable objections that might be tempting to level against it.
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dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume51
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11406-021-00350-6
dc.identifier.issn0048-3893
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dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85102437853
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00350-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/26010
dc.identifier.wos627302300001
dc.keywordsDeviant causation
dc.keywordsRationality
dc.keywordsRationalization
dc.keywordsReasons
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
dc.relation.ispartofPhilosophia
dc.subjectPhilosophy
dc.titleReasons, rationalization, and rationality
dc.typeJournal Article
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