reason-giving

A core practice, in this case of reason-giving, is identified, one that adduces only actions (and not psychological states); Thompson then exhibits the point of introducing apparently psychological locutions (such as “because I want to ¦”) into such a practice.

Practical Reason and the Structure of Actions Millgram, Elijah 2009

If you believe that stories are the most appropriate form of reason-giving, then those who use conventions and technical accounts will seem morally indifferent — regardless of whether you agree with them.

Is Logical Reason In Politics Infallible? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2007

If you believe that stories are the most appropriate form of reason-giving, then those who use conventions and technical accounts will seem morally indifferent — regardless of whether you agree with them.

2007 December 22 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2007

But there is room for improvement in their practice of calculative reason-giving, and here's a short way to see how.

Practical Reason and the Structure of Actions Millgram, Elijah 2009

However, the sense in which a commandant of a camp has obligations of role does not seem to be a moral or reason-giving sense, and it is at least an open question as to whether Orthodox Jewish women have obligations to be submissive to the male members of their community.

Special Obligations Jeske, Diane 2008

But, of course, we always need to distinguish between moral and non-moral (or reason-giving and non-reason-giving) obligations of role

Special Obligations Jeske, Diane 2008

Since they retain their reason-giving force under any circumstance, they have universal validity.

Kant's Moral Philosophy Johnson, Robert 2008

If it does not, and we continue to find Bridge objectionable while Trolley is fine, then Greene's proposed explanation cannot be right: we need a different explanation for this pair of cases, such as the reason-giving explanation deontological philosophers would give.

Morality and Evolutionary Biology FitzPatrick, William 2008

(The existence of a social practice of promising can be cited in explaining why you have a reason to φ; the existence of that practice might explain why your promise has the reason-giving force that it has.)

Theological Voluntarism Murphy, Mark 2008

Mill is emphatic that the franchise be extended to include them, because this is necessary to properly articulate their interests to political decision-makers and because this introduces them to the public culture of reason-giving and develops their moral powers.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007