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On the connection between normative reasons and the possibility of acting for those reasons (2016)
Journal Article
Sinclair, N. (in press). On the connection between normative reasons and the possibility of acting for those reasons. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19(5), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-016-9731-8

According to Bernard Williams, if it is true that A has a normative reason to Φ then it must be possible that A should Φ for that reason. This claim is important both because it restricts the range of reasons which agents can have and because it has... Read More about On the connection between normative reasons and the possibility of acting for those reasons.

Reasons, inescapability and persuasion (2016)
Journal Article
Sinclair, N. (2016). Reasons, inescapability and persuasion. Philosophical Studies, 173(10), 2823-2844. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-016-0639-x

This paper outlines a new metasemantic theory of moral reason statements, focused on explaining how the reasons thus stated can be inescapable. The motivation for the theory is in part that it can explain this and other phenomena concerning moral rea... Read More about Reasons, inescapability and persuasion.