Joseph Raz (University of Oxford – Faculty of Law) has posted Reasons: Practical and Epistemic on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
My purpose is to consider some of the differences between reasons for belief, or epistemic reasons, and reasons for action, and to use these differences to illuminate a major division among types of normative reasons2, which I will call ‘adaptive’ and ‘practical’ reasons.
Following a few clarifications of some aspects of the concept of epistemic reasons (section 1) the differences will be described and explained (section 2). Section 3 will generalise that contrast and explain the difference between adaptive and practical reasons, as well as the difference between standard and non-standard reasons, which between them are crucial to an understanding of normativity.