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…
Tag: Practical reasons
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Below is the program for the next SLACRR. You can learn more and register at the website. I hope to see you in St.…
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…