Retrospection

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Setiya, Kieran
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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.
Date issued
2016-08
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116130
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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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1533-628X
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