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The Importance of Being Rational (Paperback)
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The Importance of Being Rational systematically defends a novel
reasons-based account of rationality. The book's central thesis is
that what it is for one to be rational is to correctly respond to
the normative reasons one possesses. Errol Lord defends novel views
about what it is to possess reasons and what it is to correctly
respond to reasons. He shows that these views not only help to
support the book's main thesis, they also help to resolve several
important problems that are independent of rationality. The account
of possession provides novel contributions to debates about what
determines what we ought to do, and the account of correctly
responding to reasons provides novel contributions to debates about
causal theories of reacting for reasons. After defending views
about possession and correctly responding, Lord shows that the
account of rationality can solve two difficult problems about
rationality. The first is the New Evil Demon problem. The book
argues that the account has the resources to show that internal
duplicates necessarily have the same rational status. The second
problem concerns the deontic significance of rationality. Recently
it has been doubted whether we ought to be rational. The ultimate
conclusion of the book is that the requirements of rationality are
the requirements that we ultimately ought to comply with. If this
is right, then rationality is of fundamental importance to our
deliberative lives.
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