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    Williams' 'sound deliberative route' criterion is so perm... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Williams' argument for internalism about reasons is stronger than the Classical Argument for internalism

    Williams' 'sound deliberative route' criterion is so permissive it collapses internalism into a form of externalism, as Korsgaard and Parfit argue.

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    • 1.Williams allows reasons to count if they're reachable via any deliberative route from actual desires, making the constraint nearly vacuous.
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    • 2.If virtually any external fact can connect to motivation through some chain of reasoning, internalism loses its distinctive claim about motivational necessity.
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    • 3.Korsgaard and Parfit show that Williams' criterion permits agent-external facts to ground reasons, mirroring externalism's core commitments.
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    • 1.The 'sound deliberative route' is actually quite restrictive—it requires facts to connect to actual desires, not merely possible ones externalists posit.
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    • 2.Internalism's core claim is motivational internalism about reasons, not epistemic permissiveness about how desires shape deliberation.
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    • 3.Kolsgaard and Parfit conflate permissiveness about content with collapse of the internal-external distinction itself.
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