I offer an explanation for why certain sequences of decisions strike us as irrational while others do not. I argue that we have a standing desire to tell flattering yet plausible narratives about ourselves, and that cases of diachronic behavior that strike us as irrational are those in which you had the opportunity to hide something unflattering and failed to do so
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I offer an explanation for why certain sequences of decisions strike us as irrational while others d...
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Some philosophers have recently argued that there are no diachronic norms of epistemic rationality, ...
Standard models of practical rationality face a puzzle that has gone unnoticed: given a modest assum...
There at least three ways of thinking about rationality: instrumental, substantive, and intentional....
It seems to be a platitude that what makes behaviour irrational is its failure to accord with some p...
Enlightenment thinkers viewed logic and mathematical probability as the hallmarks of rationality. In...
The behavioral challenge to the rational choice paradigm is oriented toward individual decision-maki...
According to a popular account, rationality is a kind of coherence of an agent’s mental states and, ...
On the face of it, in ordinary practices of rational assessment, we criticize agents both for the co...
The normativity of so-called “coherence” or “structural” requirements of rationality has been hotly ...
People sometimes knowingly undermine the achievement of their own goals by, e.g., playing the lotter...
markdownabstract__Abstract__ This thesis has made a special effort to explore some relevant issue...
Rationality requires that our mental attitudes exhibit specific patterns of coherence. Do we have re...
In the recent normativity literature, much attention has been paid to the question of whether ration...
I offer an explanation for why certain sequences of decisions strike us as irrational while others d...
In Reasons Without Persons, Brian Hedden argues that a theory of rationality need not provide diachr...
Some philosophers have recently argued that there are no diachronic norms of epistemic rationality, ...
Standard models of practical rationality face a puzzle that has gone unnoticed: given a modest assum...
There at least three ways of thinking about rationality: instrumental, substantive, and intentional....
It seems to be a platitude that what makes behaviour irrational is its failure to accord with some p...
Enlightenment thinkers viewed logic and mathematical probability as the hallmarks of rationality. In...
The behavioral challenge to the rational choice paradigm is oriented toward individual decision-maki...
According to a popular account, rationality is a kind of coherence of an agent’s mental states and, ...
On the face of it, in ordinary practices of rational assessment, we criticize agents both for the co...
The normativity of so-called “coherence” or “structural” requirements of rationality has been hotly ...
People sometimes knowingly undermine the achievement of their own goals by, e.g., playing the lotter...
markdownabstract__Abstract__ This thesis has made a special effort to explore some relevant issue...
Rationality requires that our mental attitudes exhibit specific patterns of coherence. Do we have re...
In the recent normativity literature, much attention has been paid to the question of whether ration...