According to the ‘standard story’ in philosophy of action, actions are those movements a creature’s body that caused and rationalized by mental states. The attractions causal condition have been widely discussed. rationalization is nearly ubiquitous, but it notoriously obscure, its motivation has rarely made explicit. This paper presents new argument for including theory sketches broadly Davids...

We analyze a panel of 230 Canadian manufacturing industries to investigate whether trade liberalization promotes efficiency through increased scale. During the six years following the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, Canadian manufacturing exhibited substantial rationalization – a decline in the number of plants accompanied by increases in output per plant. We find that the bilatera...

We present calculations at the relativistic coupled cluster theory that predict the (1)Sigma(0) (+) ground state of CUO to lie 58.2 kJ/mol below the first excited state, (3)Phi(2). This can be contrasted with the outcome of earlier density functional theory and complete active space second order perturbation theory (CASPT2) calculations that both predicted a (3)Phi(2) ground state upon inclusio...

Concepts of biocompatibility have changed radically in recent years. This paper describes these new concepts and the present knowledge of the components and mediators of biocompatibility and leads to the development of a model for the explanation and rationalization of these phenomena. Of particular importance is the question of the assessment or evaluation of biocompatibility. The paper conclu...

We introduce a “reason-based” way of rationalizing an agent’s choice behaviour, which explains choices by specifying which properties of the options or choice context the agent cares about (the “motivationally salient properties”) and how he or she cares about these properties (the “fundamental preference relation”). Reason-based rationalizations can explain non-classical choice behaviour, incl...