ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some arguments that partisan of the view that reasons are facts direct against the claim that reasons are attitudes, understanding it to be the claim about reasons. Everyone agrees that there is some sort of explanatory relation between reasons and actions, but the literature seems to wildly disagree on what reasons are. Some hold that to talk about the reasons for which someone acts is to talk about facts, or features of the agent's circumstances, whereas others maintain that reasons are psychological states of the agent. The causal theorist's claim is that reasons are combinations of beliefs and desires. The chapter suggests that how we ought to understand the respective senses of the term "reason" in the claim that reasons are facts and in the claim that reasons are attitudes. It discusses relies on an ontological claim and attempts to present the proponent of the view that reasons are attitudes with a dilemma.
