
The Nature of Rationality
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Throughout, the book combines daring speculations with detailed investigations to portray the nature and status of rationality and the essential role that imagination plays in this singular human aptitude.
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Introduction
I How to Do Things with Principles 3
Intellectual Functions 3
Interpersonal Functions 9
Personal Functions 12
Overcoming Temptation 14
Sunk Costs 21
Symbolic Utility 26
Teleological Devices 35
II Decision-Value 41
Newcomb's Problem 41
Prisoner's Dilemma 50
Finer Distinctions: Consequences and Goals 59
III Rational Belief 64
Cognitive Goals 67
Responsiveness to Reasons 71
Rules of Rationality 75
Belief 93
Bias 100
IV Evolutionary Reasons 107
Reasons and Facts 107
Fitness and Function 114
Rationality's Function 119
V Instrumental Rationality and Its Limits 133
Is Instrumental Rationality Enough? 133
Rational Preferences 139
Testability, Interpretation, and Conditionalization 151
Philosophical Heuristics 163
Rationality's Imagination 172
Notes 183
Subject Index 219
Index of Names 224
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