Required readings
Engstrom, S. (2013) “Constructivism and practical cognitivism,” in C. Bagnoli ed., Constructivism in
Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 133-152.
Finlay, S. and M. Schroeder, “Reasons for Action: Internal vs. External”, Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, s. 1-29.
Hume, David (1738/2000) A Treatise of Human Nature (Norton, David F. and Norton, Mary J., eds.)
(Oxford: Oxford University Press), book 2, part 3, sect.1-3 and book 3, part 1, sect. 1-2, and part 3, sect. 1-6.
Kant, Immanuel (1788/1997) Critique of Practical Reason. (Gregor, Mary, et al., trans.) (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press), chapter 1, 1.-8. (including remarks).
Kant, Immanuel (1797/1996), Doctrine of Right, from Immanuel Kant: Practical Philosophy, translated and edited by Mary J. Gregor, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 383-411 and 450-461. German Academy pagination: 6:218-221; 6:229-258; 6:306-318.Vil foreligge i kompendium på kopiutsalget, Akademika. Følg kopiutsalget på twitter for beskjed om når kompendiet er ferdig.Husk studentbevis ved kjøp av kompendier.
Korsgaard, Christine (1986), “Skepticism about Practical Reason”, Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXXXIII, pp. 5– 25. (20 s.)
Korsgaard, C. (2008) The Constitution of Agency, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Extracts:
Chapter 3: “Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant”,
Chapter 7: “Acting for a Reason”,
Chapter 10: “Realism and Constructivism in 20th Century Moral Philosophy”.
McDowell, John (1995), “Might there be External Reasons?”, In J.E.J. Altham and R. Harrison (eds.)
World, Mind, and Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 68–85.
Ripsten, Arthur (2009), Force and Freedom. Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy, Harvard: Harvard
University Press. Ch. 1-3, 6, 8.
Scanlon, T.M. (2003) “Metaphysics and Morals” Proceedings of APA, pp. 7-22.
Smith, Michael (1997), “Internal Reasons”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LV, pp. 109– 131.
Williams, Bernard (1981), “Internal and External Reasons”, In B. Williams, Moral Luck, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 101–113.
Background readings
Bagnoli, C. (2015) "Constructivism in Metaethics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2015/entries/constructivism-metaethics/>.
Cohen, Rachel (2008) Hume’s Morality. Feeling and Fabrication. Oxford: OUP. (Extracts)
Engstrom, S. (2002) “Kant's Distinction Between Theoretical and Practical Knowledge” The Harvard Review of Philosophy 10 (1): 49-63.
Fitzpatrick, William (2004), “Reasons, Value, and Particular Agents”, Mind, Vol. 113, pp. 285–318.
Foot, Philippa (1972), “Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives”, Philosophical Review, Vol.
81, pp. 305–316. [Also in P. Foot, Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy,
Oxford: Blackwell (1978).]
Gert, Joshua (2000), “Practical Rationality, Morality, and Purely Justificatory Reasons”, American
Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 37, pp. 227–243.
Markovits, Julia (2011), “Why be an Internalist about Reasons?”, In R. Shafer-Landau (ed.) Oxford
Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 255–279.
O’Neill, O. (1992) “Vindicating Reason,” in The Cambridge Companion to Kant, P. Guyer (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 280–308.
Ripstein, Arthur, "Form and Matter in Kantian Political Philosophy: A Reply", in European Journal of Philosophy, 20:3, 487-496.
Valentini, Laura, "Kant, Ripstein and the Circle of Freedom: A Critical Note", in European Journal of Philosophy, 20:3, 450-459.
Williams, G. (2014) "Kant's Account of Reason", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/kant-reason/