A reason to be rational

A reason-based theory of rational choice

There is a surprising disconnect between formal rational choice theory and philosophical work on reasons. The one is silent on the role of reasons in rational choices, the other rarely engages with the formal models of decision problems used by social scientists. To bridge this gap, we propose a new, reason-based theory of rational choice. At its core is an account of preference formation, acco...

Levalbuterol toxicity: no reason to be jittery.

A Reason for Fusion Rules to Be Even

We show that certain tensor product multiplicities in semisimple braided sovereign tensor categories must be even. The quantity governing this behavior is the Frobenius--Schur indicator. The result applies in particular to the representation categories of large classes of groups, Lie algebras, Hopf algebras and vertex algebras.

20 years and no wrinkles--a reason to be proud.

a Institut für Transkulturelle Gesundheitswissenschaften, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/O., b Institut für Sozialmedizin, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsökonomie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, c Fakultät für Gesundheit (Department für Humanmedizin), Universität Witten/Herdecke, d Zentrum für naturheilkundliche Forschung der II. Medizinischen Klinik und Poliklinik, Technische Univer...

How to be a Cognitivist about Practical Reason

Cognitivism about practical reason is the view that intentions involve beliefs, and that the rational requirements on intentions can be explained in terms of the rational requirements on the beliefs that figure in intentions. In particular, cognitivists about practical reason have sought to provide cognitive explanations of two basic requirements of practical rationality: a consistency requirem...