The distinction between the 'right' and 'wrong' kind of reasons is taken to play at least three important roles: 'right' kind but not 'wrong' kinds […] Read More
Category: Practical Rationality
Let me be the first PEA Souper to follow the blogging trend of linking to FAILBlog, and direct you to this real-life instance of the […] Read More
Consider absolute-level satisficing consequentialism: ALSC: “There is a number, n, such that: An act is morally right iff either (i) it has a utility of […] Read More
The "recognitional view" of practical rationality – as I shall use the term – is the view that all requirements of practical rationality are justified […] Read More
I greatly admire the work of Harry Frankfurt. More recently, he has argued that love and caring, in the form of volitional necessities, are the […] Read More
Why is Setiya’s principle vulnerable to the problems that I listed in my previous post? What exactly is the diagnosis? I suggest that the diagnosis […] Read More
I’m supposed to be writing a review of Kieran Setiya’s book, Reasons without Rationalism (Harvard UP, 2007). Even though I disagreed with a lot of […] Read More
Suppose that what ultimately matters is the objective goodness of what you do – where the objective goodness of an action is determined by the […] Read More
Classical decision theory is built around a central "representation theorem": so long as an agent’s preferences meet certain basic conditions of coherence, we can construct […] Read More