Retrospection
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Retrospection.pdf
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Author(s)
Setiya, Kieran
Date Issued
August 2016
Journal
Philosopher's Imprint
Publisher
Michigan Publishing
Citation
Setiya, Kieran. "Retrospection." Philosophers' Imprint, vol. 16, no. 15, 2016, pp. 1-15. © 2016 Kieran Setiya
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Final published version
Abstract
This paper argues from the rationality of nostalgia, affirmation, and regret to a principle of ‘specificity’: it can be rational to respond more strongly to facts that provide us with reasons than to the fact that such reasons exist.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3521354.0016.015