Preference-Revision and the Paradoxes of Instrumental Rationality
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The requirements of instrumental rationality are often thought to be normative conditions on choice or intention, but this is a mistake. Instrumental rationality is best understood as a requirement of coherence on an agent's non-instrumental desires and means-end beliefs. Since only a subset of an agent's means-end beliefs concern possible actions, the connection with intention is thus more obl...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Philosophy
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0045-5091,1911-0820
DOI: 10.1080/00455091.1992.10717294