| Description |
xvi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. How to Do Things with Principles. Intellectual Functions. Interpersonal Functions. Personal Functions. Overcoming Temptation. Sunk Costs. Symbolic Utility. Teleological Devices -- II. Decision-Value. Newcomb's Problem. Prisoner's Dilemma. Finer Distinctions: Consequences and Goals -- III. Rational Belief. Cognitive Goals. Responsiveness to Reasons. Rules of Rationality. Belief. Bias -- IV. Evolutionary Reasons. Reasons and Facts. Fitness and Function. Rationality's Function -- V. Instrumental Rationality and Its Limits. Is Instrumental Rationality Enough? Rational Preferences. Testability, Interpretation, and Conditionalization. Philosophical Heuristics. Rationality's Imagination. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-217) and indexes. |
| Subject |
Reasoning.
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Reason.
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| ISBN |
0691074240 (acid-free paper) : $19.95 |
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