When an agent has no more reason to choose one alternative over another, the choice being settled by the agent's wants requires those wants to be grounded in reasons for the choice to be intelligible.
Based on solid justifications or explanations; when something is grounded in reasons, it means you can point to actual causes or explanations for why it exists or happens.
intelligible(describing the noumenal self)
Able to be understood or known through reason and thought, rather than through our five senses.
Donald Regan challenges this view. According to Regan, unless grounded in an adequate reason, “a decision to go one way rather than another will be something that happened to the agent rather than something she did” and hence be unintelligible to the agent herself (1997, 144). Suppose the agent has no more reason to choose one alternative over another and the choice, as suggested above, is settled by her wants. On Regan’s view, if the agent’s choice is to be intelligible to her, her wants must b