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    Korsgaard's constitutivism holds that reasons arise from ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Williams' internalist thesis involving sound deliberation from full information is inadequate because it fails to accommodate reasons that agents have precisely because they are incapable of deliberating soundly.

    Korsgaard's constitutivism holds that reasons arise from the actual practical identity of the agent, including identities constituted by deliberative limitations.

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    • 1.Agents' reasons must be grounded in something real about them; their actual identities are the most plausible candidates for this grounding.
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    • 2.Deliberative limitations are genuine features of agents' practical identities, not mere defects to be ignored in explaining reasons.
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    • 3.This view avoids the implausible consequence that agents have reasons they cannot possibly recognize or act upon given their actual capacities.
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    • 1.If reasons depend on actual deliberative limitations, then cognitive biases and ignorance would constitute legitimate sources of reasons—a counterintuitive result.
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    • 2.Constitutivism risks making reasons too subjective: two agents with different identities face genuinely different reasons in identical situations.
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    • 3.The claim that practical identity constitutes reasons lacks independent explanation of why identity has normative force—it seems circular.
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