Practical Reason, Instrumental Irrationality, and Time

Philosophical Studies 126 (2):241-252 (2005)
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Abstract

Standard models of practical rationality face a puzzle that has gone unnoticed: given a modest assumption about the nature of deliberation, we are apparently frequently briefly irrational. In what follows, I explain the problem, consider what is wrong with several possible solutions, and propose an account that does not generate the objectionable result.

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Manuel Vargas
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The Normativity of Instrumental Reason.Christine M. Korsgaard - 1997 - In Garrett Cullity & Berys Nigel Gaut, Ethics and practical reason. New York: Oxford University Press.

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