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    Practical Deliberation and Background Conditions on Normative Reasons for Action
    Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 5. 2018.
    Normative reasons for action are considerations that count in favor of actions. They are the considerations that determine what an agent should do in a given situation. If the agent acts on these considerations, they justify her action. This paper concerns accounts of normative reasons that separate the explanation of why a particular reason counts in favor of an agent’s performing some action from the content of that reason. Elements of this explanation of why the reason is a reason are “backgr…Read more