I have a roughly formulated and half-baked inquiry:
Suppose that rationality endorses maximizing utility, but there is room for rational supererogation, and so it is sometimes rationally permissible to drink a coffee even if doing so does not maximize utility. » …Read more
SLACRR: May 22-24, 2016
Keynote Speaker:
Paul Boghossian (NYU)
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality provides a forum for new work on practical and theoretical reason, » …Read more
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln is hosting a conference on Practical Reason and Metaethics to be held April 22-23, » …Read more
Consider the question “Can regret be appropriate even apart from any belief that one’s choice was misguided or irrational if a monistic theory of the good is true?” » …Read more
Call for Abstracts: SLACRR 6
I'm pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the next St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality, sponsored by UMSL, » …Read more
My apologies for the slight delay – we thought it would be nice to give some extra time for Nomy Arpaly's wonderful post about moral concerns and praiseworthiness (and I hope that the discussion of that post will still continue). » …Read more
Below is the program for the next SLACRR. You can learn more and register at the website.
I hope to see you in St. » …Read more
Warren Quinn’s puzzle of the self-torturer is supposed to show that cyclic preferences can be rational, and that, in cases where they are, rationality can require resoluteness so that the agent does not end up with an alternative that is worse than the one with which s/he started. » …Read more