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    Perspectivism is correct about normative reasons. — Carmelics
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    Perspectivism is correct about normative reasons.

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    • 1.Agents who act in error or ignorance often act rationally.
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    • 2.One acts rationally when one acts for reasons that make it rational for one to so act.
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    • 3.Therefore, agents acting in error or ignorance act for reasons they have to do what they do.
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    • 1.Normative reasons are objective facts about what matters, grounded in agent-independent value (Parfit, Scanlon).
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    • 2.If reasons depended on epistemic perspective, an agent ignorant of all relevant facts could have reasons to perform any action.
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    • 3.A theory generating such arbitrary reasons cannot be tracking the genuine normative domain it purports to explain.
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    • 1.The perspectival conflation of motivating and normative reasons commits the 'wrong kind of reason' error Williams diagnosed.
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    • 2.Rationalizing an action from a subjective motivational set explains behavior without conferring genuine normative justification.
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    Perspectivists tend to defend their position by reference to considerations of rationality. Agents are often in situations in which they don’t know all the relevant facts. And yet, perspectivists say, these agents often do what is reasonable or rational for them to do, given their perspective. If, as seems plausible, one acts rationally when one acts for reasons that make it rational for one to so act, then perspectivism must be right: agents who act in error or ignorance often act rationally an
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