Required readings
Engstrom, S. (2013) “Constructivism and practical cognitivism,” in C. Bagnoli ed., Constructivism in
Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 133-152.
Finlay, S. and M. Schroeder, “Reasons for Action: Internal vs. External”, Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, s. 1-29.
Hume, David (1738/2000) A Treatise of Human Nature (Norton, David F. and Norton, Mary J., eds.)
(Oxford: Oxford University Press), book 2, part 3, sect.1-3 and book 3, part 1, sect. 1-2, and part 3, sect. 1-6.
Kant, Immanuel (1788/1997) Critique of Practical Reason. (Gregor, Mary, et al., trans.) (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press), chapter 1, 1.-8. (including remarks).
Kant, Immanuel (1797/1996), Doctrine of Right, from Immanuel Kant: Practical Philosophy, translated and edited by Mary J. Gregor, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 383-411 and 450-461. German Academy pagination: 6:218-221; 6:229-258; 6:306-318.
Korsgaard, Christine (1986), “Skepticism about Practical Reason”, Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXXXIII, pp. 5– 25. (20 s.)
Korsgaard, C. (2008) The Constitution of Agency, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Extracts:
Chapter 3: “Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant”,
Chapter 7: “Acting for a Reason”,
Chapter 10: “Realism and Constructivism in 20th Century Moral Philosophy”.
McDowell, John (1995), “Might there be External Reasons?”, In J.E.J. Altham and R. Harrison (eds.)
World, Mind, and Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 68–85.
Ripsten, Arthur (2009), Force and Freedom. Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy, Harvard: Harvard
University Press. Ch. 1-3, 6, 8.
Scanlon, T.M. (2003) “Metaphysics and Morals” Proceedings of APA, pp. 7-22.
Smith, Michael (1997), “Internal Reasons”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LV, pp. 109– 131.
Williams, Bernard (1981), “Internal and External Reasons”, In B. Williams, Moral Luck, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 101–113.
Background readings
Bagnoli, C. (2015) "Constructivism in Metaethics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2015/entries/constructivism-metaethics/>.
Cohen, Rachel (2008) Hume’s Morality. Feeling and Fabrication. Oxford: OUP. (Extracts)
Engstrom, S. (2002) “Kant's Distinction Between Theoretical and Practical Knowledge” The Harvard Review of Philosophy 10 (1): 49-63.
Fitzpatrick, William (2004), “Reasons, Value, and Particular Agents”, Mind, Vol. 113, pp. 285–318.
Foot, Philippa (1972), “Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives”, Philosophical Review, Vol.
81, pp. 305–316. [Also in P. Foot, Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy,
Oxford: Blackwell (1978).]
Gert, Joshua (2000), “Practical Rationality, Morality, and Purely Justificatory Reasons”, American
Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 37, pp. 227–243.
Markovits, Julia (2011), “Why be an Internalist about Reasons?”, In R. Shafer-Landau (ed.) Oxford
Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 255–279.
O’Neill, O. (1992) “Vindicating Reason,” in The Cambridge Companion to Kant, P. Guyer (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 280–308.
Ripstein, Arthur, "Form and Matter in Kantian Political Philosophy: A Reply", in European Journal of Philosophy, 20:3, 487-496.
Valentini, Laura, "Kant, Ripstein and the Circle of Freedom: A Critical Note", in European Journal of Philosophy, 20:3, 450-459.
Williams, G. (2014) "Kant's Account of Reason", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/kant-reason/