Some central questions about practical reason

This chapter identifies seven questions that students interested in practical reason should address and surveys some possible answers to them, including, but not limited to, answers favored by the writer. These questions include: (1) whether there is a problem about how facts about practical reasons could “fit into the world,” (2) whether there is a problem about how such facts could figure in the explanation of actions, (3) whether there is a problem about how we could come to know such facts, (4) whether truths about reasons can be derived from requirements of rationality, (5) in what sense requirements of rationality could be normative, (6) why subjectivist accounts of reasons for action are appealing, and (7) how the relation between normative truths and non-normative truths should be understood.