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    If motivating reasons were facts (or putative facts), the... — Carmelics
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    If motivating reasons were facts (or putative facts), then we can, and sometimes do, act for a good reason.

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    • 1.To act for a good reason, one must act for a reason that is or could be a fact.
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    • 2.If motivating reasons were facts and putative facts, then some of the reasons for which we act would be facts.
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    • 1.Motivating reasons are psychological states (beliefs, desires) that causally explain action, not facts in the world (Davidson, 1963).
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    • 2.A reason that causally produces action must be internal to the agent, so facts qua external states cannot play the motivating role.
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    • 1.Normative factivism about reasons conflates the reason for which one acts with the justificatory reason that evaluates the act (Dancy, 2000).
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    • 2.Acting under a false belief can still constitute acting for a motivating reason, so motivating reasons cannot require the obtaining of any fact.
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    Dancy’s charge against psychologism about motivating reasons is that it fails to meet the constraint because, if psychologism is right, we can never act for a good reason. Why? In order to act for a good reason, we need to act for a reason that is or could be a fact. However, according to psychologism, motivating reasons are mental states. If so, the reasons for which we act are mental states, and not facts. If, by contrast, motivating reasons were, say facts and putative facts, then some of the
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