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This chapter discusses two contemporary pictures of practical reasoning. According to the Rule-Guidance Conception, roughly, practical reasoning is a rule-guided operation of acquiring (or retaining or giving up) intentions to come to meet synchronic requirements of rationality. According to the Reasons-Responsiveness Conception, practical reasoning is, roughly, a process of responding to apparent reasons. Its standards of correctness derive from what we objectively have reason to do, if things are as we suppose them to be. I argue that a version of the latter has some significant advantages. This has some surprising consequences for how we should conceive of the structure and process of instrumental reasoning in particular.
Title: Practical Reasoning
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This chapter discusses two contemporary pictures of practical reasoning.
According to the Rule-Guidance Conception, roughly, practical reasoning is a rule-guided operation of acquiring (or retaining or giving up) intentions to come to meet synchronic requirements of rationality.
According to the Reasons-Responsiveness Conception, practical reasoning is, roughly, a process of responding to apparent reasons.
Its standards of correctness derive from what we objectively have reason to do, if things are as we suppose them to be.
I argue that a version of the latter has some significant advantages.
This has some surprising consequences for how we should conceive of the structure and process of instrumental reasoning in particular.
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