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Tag: Practical reasons

Decisive Reasons and Rational Supererogation

Chrisoula Andreou / On Posted onMarch 8, 2017March 8, 2017 / (4) Comments

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 2016: Call for abstracts

Eric Wiland / On Posted onDecember 15, 2015August 3, 2016 / (0) Comments

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

Conference/CFP: Practical Reason and Metaethics

Mark van Roojen / On Posted onOctober 23, 2015August 4, 2016 / (1) Comments

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

Regret

Chrisoula Andreou / On Posted onMarch 2, 2015August 3, 2016 / (2) Comments

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

Eric Wiland / On Posted onNovember 15, 2014 / (0) Comments

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

JESP Discussions at PEA Soup: Daniel Whiting’s “Keep Things in Perspective: Reasons, Rationality and the A Priori” with a Critical Précis from Errol Lord

Jussi Suikkanen / On Posted onJune 17, 2014 / (25) Comments

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

SLACRR 2014 Program

Eric Wiland / On Posted onMarch 7, 2014 / (0) Comments

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

The Self-Torturer and Instrumental Rationality

Chrisoula Andreou / On Posted onFebruary 26, 2014 / (15) Comments

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

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