"Low-risk mistakes, like a typo on a label, constitute reasons to recall a product, but those aren't driving the big responses that we see by firms and their competitors," Stern says.
Moreover, feelings may constitute "reasons" on Friedman's view: "emotions and desires, as well as imagination, can constitute a kind of reflection on or attention to objects or values of concern" (Friedman 2003, 10).
The existence of historical injustices or of states formed or expanded as a result of territory at some point having been forcibly seized do not in themselves constitute reasons for the dissolution of a modern state.
Although traditional process reliabilists don't find a place for reasons in their story, it is easy for them to say that justified belief states that are inputs to their beloved processes constitute reasons for their holding the output beliefs.
Some have argued that such serious conflicts within the text constitute reasons for thinking that the Analects is an accretive text, i.e., composed of layers added at different times by different people with conflicting views.
One the one hand, future teachers were asked, to what extent their expected talent for teaching, the wish to work with young people and to influence the next generation and the perception of teaching as a challenging job constitute reasons to become a teacher; aspects, which represent an intrinsic pedagogical motivation.
A related aspect of Kant's theory of freedom is what Henry Allison calls Kant's "Incorporation Thesis," according to which particular inclinations, impulses, and feelings do not constitute reasons for action unless an agent has a maxim of satisfying them (Allison 1990).
These constitute reasons beyond the family context why oral disease went largely unrecognized or untreated in farmworker children.
Although sports officials contend that this reworking is not a specific response to the fiasco surrounding the South African runner Caster Semenya, what happened to Semenya constitutes reason enough to seek reform.
In the term used by several contemporary Kantians (Herman 2007: Ch. 10, Korsgaard 2008, Reath 2013), this procedure constitutes reason itself.
