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8Normative reasons and motivational capacitiesFilosofia Unisinos 25 (1): 1-13. 2024.A very influential idea on the nature of normative reasons is that the existence of normative reasons for action depends on the motivational capacity of the agents whose reasons they are: there are reasons for an agent to act only if she has the capacity to be moved to act for those reasons. Many theories of reasons developed in recent years imply at least some version of that idea, and many find it attractive since it incorporates some widespread assumptions about the role of reasons. In this p…Read more
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178PROPOSITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN HIGH SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY CLASSES: BETWEEN DIDACTIC AND TEACHINGThaumàzein 13 (25). 2020.In this paper, I argue that knowledge of philosophical propositions can and should perform a role as regulative ideal in high school philosophy classes. Roughly speaking, I think that there are two kinds of knowledge assumed in high school philosophy classes: the first, which, for convenience, I shall call philosophical dispositional knowledge, and the philosophical propositional knowledge. The first one consists in the knowledge that takes into account only certain philosophical skills such as …Read more
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Meta-Ethics |
Practical Reason |
Value Theory |
Moral Reasoning and Motivation |
Internalism and Externalism about Reasons |
Moral Normativity |