Getting Things Right: Fittingness, Reasons, and Value Conor Mchugh

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• ISBN 10: 0192538276
• ISBN 13: 9780192538277
• Author:  Conor Mchugh

Some of our attitudes are fitting, others unfitting. It seems fitting to admire Mandela, but not Idi Amin, and to believe that the Seine flows through Paris, but not that the Thames does. Fitting attitudes get things right. Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way argue that fittingness is the key to understanding the normative domain—the domain of reasons, obligations, and value. They develop and defend a novel ‘fittingness first’ approach, on which fittingness is a normatively basic property and all other normative properties depend on fittingness. They show how this approach illuminates central questions in ethics and epistemology.

Table contents:

1 Reasons
2 Fittingness First
3 Preliminaries
1. Reasons
1 Introduction
2 Roles and Features of Reasons: Desiderata for a Constitutive Account
3 Some Theories of Reasons
4 Reasons as Premises of Good Reasoning
5 Challenges
6 Conclusion
2. Good Reasoning
1 Introduction
2 Clarifications and Desiderata
3 The Fittingness View
4 Other Things Equal and Normality
5 Objections
6 Back to Reasons
7 Conclusion
3. Fittingness
1 Introduction
2 Examples of Fittingness
3 Fittingness and Deontic Status
4 Fittingness and Reasons
5 What Makes Responses Fitting?
6 Conclusion
4. Value
1 Introduction
2 Preliminaries
3 Attractions of Norm-Attitude Accounts
4 The Wrong Kind of Reason Problem
5 The Partiality Problem
6 Conclusion
5. The Explanatory Role of Reasons I: The Weights of Reasons
1 Introduction
2 The Simple Approach
3 The Defeasibility Approach
4 Placing Weight
5 Applying the Account
6 Conclusion
6. The Explanatory Role of Reasons II: From Weights to Deontic Status
1 Introduction
2 Overall Strength and Reasons Against
3 Strength Amended
4 From Overall Strength to Deontic Status
5 The Balancing Asymmetry
6 Pointless Responses
7 Reasons’ Explanatory Role
8 Conclusion
7. Reasons for Belief, Action, and Emotions
1 Introduction
2 Reasons for Belief
3 Reasons for Action
4 Reasons for Emotions
5 Conclusion

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