2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Reasons for an action and Self-determination -beyond "Internalism vs Externalism"

Research Project

Project/Area Number	14510049
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	倫理学
Research Institution	Senshu University
Principal Investigator	OHBA Takeshi Senshu University, School of Literature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (00129917)
Project Period (FY)	2002 – 2003
Keywords	Reason for Action / Self-determination / Internalism / Externalism / self-knowledge / First Person Authority
Research Abstract	Self-knowledge which is indispensable for self-determination involves a problematic peculiar to first person. It cannot be dealt with sufficiently by conceptual apparatus for dealing with issues about 'Internalism/Externalism' disputes in philosophy of belief exactly because of an essentially practical character of a self-knowledge. The problematic is conceptually related to the issues about another sort of 'Internalism/Externalism' debates in ethics concerning both reason and motivation, by virtue of logical structure of practical reasoning.

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