Reasoning with Reasons
摘要
We started our journey by noting that there are few precise accounts of reasoning with reasons available in the literature. Most hints found in the literature, in fact, point to a vague process of weighing, or balancing reasons, stopping short of giving a clear account of what precisely is supposed to happen. When pressed, some would say this is just a metaphor, some would even venture to say that such deliberation process cannot be captured in a precise way. Following the deeper commitments of some theorists, it may even be probable that some would say that the fact that such a process cannot be captured precisely is a mark of human rationality, or free will, etc.