caa a22 4500 606238328 CHVBK 20210128101257.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-015-9576-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-015-9576-6 Sandis Constantine Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion, FHSS, Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill Campus, OX2 9AT, Oxford, UK aut Verbal Reports and ‘Real' Reasons: Confabulation and Conflation [Elektronische Daten] [Constantine Sandis] This paper examines the relation between the various forces which underlie human action and verbal reports about our reasons for acting as we did. I maintain that much of the psychological literature on confabulations rests on a dangerous conflation of the reasons for which people act with a variety of distinct motivational factors. In particular, I argue that subjects frequently give correct answers to questions about the considerations they acted upon while remaining largely unaware of why they take themselves to have such reasons to act. Pari passu, experimental psychologists are wrong to maintain that they have shown our everyday reason talk to be systematically confused. This is significant because our everyday reason-ascriptions affect characterizations of action (in terms of intention, knowledge, foresight, etc.) that are morally and legally relevant. I conclude, more positively, that far from rendering empirical research on confabulations invalid, my account helps to reveal its true insights into human nature. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Reasons nationallicence Confabulation nationallicence Verbal reports nationallicence Action explanation nationallicence Motivation nationallicence Experimental psychology nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/2(2015-04-01), 267-280 1386-2820 18:2<267 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9576-6 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/s10677-015-9576-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sandis Constantine Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion, FHSS, Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill Campus, OX2 9AT, Oxford, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/2(2015-04-01), 267-280 1386-2820 18:2<267 2015 18 10677