Julian Fink (University of Bayreuth/Slovak Academy of Sciences): Wide and Narrow Scope Equivalence?

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Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Klemensova 19, Room 94

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Thursday, 20. March 2014

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11:00

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Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
In his ‘Wide or narrow scope?’, John Broome argues that (i) wide- and narrow-scope requirements of rationality are equivalent in respect of the property of full rationality. Thus, (ii) the property of full rationality cannot guide us in choosing between wide- or narrow-scope formulations of conditional requirements. However, this paper takes issue with (i) and (ii). I argue that replacing a wide- with a narrow-scope requirement of rationality can alter the circumstances in which one is fully rational. I conclude that the property of rationality may guide us in deciding between wide- or narrow-scope formulations of rational requirements.

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