caa a22 4500 606237852 CHVBK 20210128101255.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-014-9551-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-014-9551-7 McAninch Andrew Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 433 Cohen Hall, 19104-6304, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut Acting for a Reason and Following a Principle [Elektronische Daten] [Andrew McAninch] According to an influential view of practical reason and rational agency, a person acts for a reason only if she recognizes some consideration to be a reason, where this recognition motivates her to act. I call this requirement the guidance condition on acting for a reason. Despite its intuitive appeal, the guidance condition appears to generate a vicious regress. At least one proponent of the guidance condition, Christine M. Korsgaard, is sensitive to this regress worry, and her appeal in recent work to the constitutive principles of action can be seen, in part, as a response to it. I argue, however, that if we are to appeal to the constitutive principles of action to resolve the regress, then we must determine whether acting on such principles is also subject to the guidance condition. This raises a dilemma. If following these principles is subject to the guidance condition, then the regress remains unresolved. But if not, then the rationale for applying it to acting for a reason vanishes as well. I conclude that we should embrace an account of acting for a reason that rejects the guidance condition. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Agency nationallicence Constitutivism nationallicence Korsgaard, Christine M nationallicence Practical reason nationallicence Regress nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/3(2015-06-01), 649-661 1386-2820 18:3<649 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9551-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9551-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- McAninch Andrew Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 433 Cohen Hall, 19104-6304, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/3(2015-06-01), 649-661 1386-2820 18:3<649 2015 18 10677