Contrastive reasons

Content: Cover
 Contrastive Reasons
 Copyright
 Dedication
 Contents
 Acknowledgments
 Preface
 1: Contrastivism and Reasons
 1.1 Reasons and Contrastivism
 1.1.1 Reasons
 1.1.2 Contrastivism
 1.2 Reasons and the Contrastivist Program
 1.2.1 Reasons and justification
 1.2.2 Reasons and 'ought'
 1.2.3 Reasons and explanation
 1.3 The Plan
 2: Reason Claims
 2.1 A Simple Argument
 2.2 A Stronger Argument
 2.2.1 The argument
 2.2.2 Response: denying exclusivity
 2.3 Contrastivism
 2.3.1 A contrastive account of reason claims
 2.3.2 A contrastive solution
 2.4 Other 'Rather than' Ascriptions 2.5 Negative Reason Existentials2.5.1 The puzzle
 2.5.2 The pragmatic solution
 2.5.3 A contrastivist solution
 2.6 Looking Forward
 3: Favoring
 3.1 Why Resist Contrastivism?
 3.2 Shallow Contrastivism
 3.2.1 A traditional theory of favoring
 3.2.2 A contrastive account of reason claims
 3.2.3 Shallow contrastivism and exclusivity
 3.3 Favoring
 3.3.1 Against non-contrastive favoring
 3.4 Contrastive Reasons and Favoring
 3.4.1 Contrastivism
 3.4.2 A problem
 3.4.3 Reasons and ought
 3.5 Looking Forward
 4: Promotion
 4.1 The Need for Constraints
 4.1.1 Intransitivity 4.1.2 Reasons for and subsets4.1.3 Reasons against and supersets
 4.1.4 Entailment relations and deliberation
 4.2 Promotion
 4.2.1 Promotion in the theory of reasons
 4.2.2 Doing nothing
 4.2.3 Not A-ing
 4.2.4 Contrastive promotion
 4.2.5 Motivating resolution sensitivity
 4.3 Contrastive Reasons and Promotion
 4.4 Contrastive Reasons as Better Reasons?
 4.5 Providing the Constraints
 4.5.1 Transitivity
 4.5.2 Non-exhaustivity
 4.5.3 Resolution sensitivity
 4.5.4 Other entailments: Unions and intersections
 4.6 Non-Promotional Reasons
 4.7 Where we Are
 5: Intransitivity 5.1 Transitivity and Reasons5.2 Intransitivity
 5.2.1 The Repugnant Conclusion
 5.2.2 Resisting the first step
 5.2.3 The Mere Addition Paradox
 5.3 Intransitivity and Contrastivism
 5.3.1 Two kinds of intransitivity
 5.4 Contrast-Sensitive Importance
 5.4.1 Strength of reasons and importance of objectives
 5.4.2 Contrast-sensitive importance
 5.4.3 Contrastivism about reasons and importance
 5.5 Remaining Questions
 5.5.1 What should I do?
 5.5.2 Why so uncommon?
 5.6 Conclusion
 6: Withholding
 6.1 Withholding Belief and Contrastive Reasons
 6.1.1 Contrastive epistemic reasons 6.1.2 A contrastive account of rational withholding6.1.3 A non-contrastive account
 6.1.4 Ties
 6.1.5 A contrastivist explanation
 6.1.6 Reasons not to withhold belief?
 6.2 Withholding Intention
 6.2.1 A unified account?
 6.2.2 Contrastive practical reasons
 6.2.3 A contrastive account of rational withholding of intention
 6.2.4 A unified account
 6.3 Wrap Up
 References
 Index