Comment: Understanding reasons without reenactment: Comment on Stueber

Authors

Daniel Hutto, University of Hertfordshire

RIS ID

80461

Publication Details

Hutto, D. (2012). Comment: Understanding reasons without reenactment: Comment on Stueber. Emotion Review, 4 (1), 66-67.

Link to publisher version (URL)

Sage

Abstract

This comment on Stueber’s article clarifies the nature of the core disagreement between his approach to understanding reasons and mine. The purely philosophical nature of the dispute is highlighted. It is argued that understanding someone’s narrative often suffices for understanding the person’s reasons in ordinary cases. It is observed that Stueber has yet to provide a compelling counter case. There is also a brief clarification of some of the empirical commitments of the narrative practice hypothesis.