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Propositional Attitudes as Commitments: Unleashing Some Constraints

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ABSTRACT In a series of articles, Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen and Nick Zangwill argue that, since propositional attitude (PA) ascription judgements do not behave like normative judgements in being subject to a… Click to show full abstract

ABSTRACT In a series of articles, Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen and Nick Zangwill argue that, since propositional attitude (PA) ascription judgements do not behave like normative judgements in being subject to a priori normative supervenience and the Because Constraint, PAs cannot be constitutively normative.1 I argue that, for a specific version of normativism, according to which PAs are normative commitments, these arguments fail. To this end, I argue that commitments and obligations should be distinguished. Then, I show that the intuitions allegedly governing all normative judgements do not even purport to hold for commitment-attributing judgements.

Keywords: argue; attitudes commitments; propositional attitudes; commitments unleashing; unleashing constraints

Journal Title: Dialogue
Year Published: 2020

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