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Instrumental Rationality. Markos Valaris UNSW. Rational Requirements (technical sense): constraints on our thought and conduct which hold even in abstraction from the worldly facts that constitute the evidence for our beliefs and the reasons for our actions.
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Instrumental Rationality Markos Valaris UNSW
Rational Requirements (technical sense): constraints on our thought and conduct which hold even in abstraction from the worldly facts that constitute the evidence for our beliefs and the reasons for our actions.
Contrapositive of Broome’s Conditional: (1) If one’s performance is not a correct piece of reasoning, it cannot achieve the result of bringing one to satisfy a relevant rational requirement.
Contrapositive of Broome’s Conditional: (1) If one’s performance is not a correct piece of reasoning, it cannot achieve the result of bringing one to satisfy a relevant rational requirement. (2) If a piece of reasoning is incorrect, it cannot achieve the result of brining one to satisfy a relevant rational requirement.
Instrumental Requirement: (3) If one is doing a non-basic action A and M is a necessary means to A, then one ought to do M.
Principle about Actions in General: (4) If one is doing A then one is engaged in a process which, if all goes well, will result in one’s having done A.
Relation between Perfective Attributions of Processes and their Perfective Correlates: (5) If one is doing A, then — assuming that it is possible for one to complete A — in a normal run of events, at some future time one has done A.
Practical Irrationality: An accusation of practical irrationality is appropriate in cases of practical failure due to a defect in the subject’s will or practical thought, rather than bad luck or external interference.
