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Norms, reasons and reasoning: a guide through Lewis Carroll’s regress argument

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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:14 authored by Corine BessonCorine Besson
This chapter concerns the connection between knowledge of a logical principle, such as Modus Ponens, and actions of reasoning with it. Contemporary discussions of this issue typically mention Lewis Carroll’s regress. There is widespread agreement that the regress shows something important about the connection between knowing logical principles and reasoning with them—and, more generally, between knowing epistemic or practical principles and actions involving them. My first aim is to address key interpretations of Carroll’s regress in order to assess its relevance to the question of how knowing logical principles connects to reasoning with them, and, more generally, of how knowing epistemic or practical principles might be action-guiding. My second aim is to show that the regress fails to establish anything of substance about such connections unless substantive, contentious, and typically undefended assumptions are made.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Page range

504-528

Pages

1120.0

Book title

The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity

Place of publication

Oxon

ISBN

9780199657889

Series

Oxford Handbooks

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  • Philosophy Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Daniel Star

Legacy Posted Date

2016-02-09

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-06-21

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-03-22

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