Sometimes our intentions and beliefs exhibit a structure that proves us to be irrational. The
Normativity of Rationality is concerned with the question of whether we ought to avoid such …

Rationality requires various things of you. For example, it requires you not to have
contradictory beliefs, and to intend what you believe is a necessary means to an end that …

Normative theories for cognition aim to tell us how we ideally should or ought to reason,
make judgments, and take decisions. These theories, particularly formal logic, probability …

Aristotle took practical reasoning to be reasoning that concludes in an action. But an action–
at least a physical one–requires more than reasoning ability; it requires physical ability too …

Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do
what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity …

Some philosophers think that rationality consists in responding correctly to reasons, or
alternatively in responding correctly to beliefs about reasons. This paper considers various …

The concept of normative practical reasons has become one of the most basic and central
topics in contemporary ethical theory. 1 Such reasons are normative in that they either favor …

THE WORD philosophy means the love of wisdom, but what phi-losophers really love is
reasoning. They formulate theories and marshal reasons to support them, they consider …

Rational requirements have a special status in the theory of rationality. This is obvious in
one sense: they supply the content of that theory. But I want to suggest that rational …

This paper investigates two puzzles in practical reason and proposes a solution to them.
First, sometimes, when we are practically certain that neither of two alternatives is better than …