Oxford Handbook of Rationality, The

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by  Mele et al

The Oxford Handbook
of Rationality
ALFRED R. MELE
PIERS RAWLING,
Editors
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
the oxford handbook of
RATIONALITY
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OXFORD HANDBOOKS IN PHILOSOPHY
PAUL K. MOSER, general editor
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ROBERT AUDI
Universityof Nebraska
MARTHA NUSSBAUM
Universityof Chicago
ALVIN PLANTINGA
Universityof NotreDame
ERNEST SOSA
Brown University
the oxford handbook of
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RATIONALITY
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PIERS RAWLING
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For advice and encouragement, we are grateful to Dick Jeffrey,PaulMoser,Peter
Ohlin, several anonymous readers, and many of the contributors to this volume.
We are grateful as well to Peter Hanowell for his efficient and cheerful assistance
with the manuscript, and to Adam Sipos for compiling the index. Special thanks
are owed to the contributors for their excellent essays.
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Contributors,ix
1. Introduction: Aspects of Rationality,3
Alfred R. Mele and Piers Rawling
Part 1. The Nature of Rationality
2. Theoretical Rationality: Its Sources, Structure, and Scope,17
Robert Audi
3. Practical Aspects of Theoretical Reasoning,45
Gilbert Harman
4. Procedural and Substantive Practical Rationality,57
Brad Hooker and Bart Streumer
5. Humean Rationality,75
Michael Smith
6. Kant: Rationality as Practical Reason,93
Onora O’Neill
7. Duty, Rationality, and Practical Reasons,110
David McNaughton and Piers Rawling
8. Bayesianism,132
James M. Joyce
9. Decision Theory and Morality,156
James Dreier
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10. Rationality and Game Theory,182
Cristina Bicchieri
11. Practical Reasoning and Emotion,206
Patricia Greenspan
12. The Rationality of Being Guided by Rules,222
Edward F. McClennen
13. Motivated Irrationality,240
Alfred R. Mele
14. Paradoxes of Rationality,257
Roy Sorensen
Part 2. Rationality in Specific Domains
15. Rationality and Psychology,279
Richard Samuels and Stephen Stich
16. Gender and Rationality,301
Karen Jones
17. Rationality and Persons,320
Carol Rovane
18. Rationality, Language, and the Principle of Charity,343
Kirk Ludwig
19. Rationality and Science,363
Paul Thagard
20. Economic Rationality,380
Paul Weirich
21. Legal Theory and the Rational Actor,399
Claire Finkelstein
22. Rationality and Evolution,417
Peter Danielson
References, 439
Index, 469
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robert audi works in epistemology, including moralandreligiousepistemology;
ethics, theoretical and applied; and the areas of philosophy of mind and action
related to both. His books include Practical Reasoning (1989), Action, Intention,
and Reason (1993), The Structure of Justification (1993), Moral Knowledge andEth-
ical Character (Oxford University Press, 1997), Epistemology (1998, 2003),andThe
Architecture of Reason (Oxford University Press, 2001). He is currently Charles J.
Mach University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
cristina bicchieri is Professor of Philosophy and Social and Decision Sciences
at Carnegie Mellon University. She has published widelyinphilosophy,sociology,
political science, and economics journals. She is the author of Rationality and
Coordination (1993, 1997), and coauthor of The Dynamics of Norms (1997) and
The Logic of Strategy (Oxford University Press, 1999). Her current research inter-
ests are the emergence and dynamics of norms, social learning, and the founda-
tions of game theory. She is completingThe GrammarofSociety,abookonsocial
norms, to be published by Cambridge University Press.
peter danielson is the Mary and Maurice Young Professor of Applied Ethicsat
the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, UniversityofBritishColumbia.
He is the author of Artificial Morality (1992) and the editor of Modeling Ration-
ality, Morality, and Evolution (1998).
james dreier isAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyatBrownUniversity.Heworks
on ethics, especially metaethics, and on practical rationality, including the foun-
dations of decision theory.
clairefinkelsteinisProfessorofLawandPhilosophyattheUniversityofPenn-
sylvania. Her research focuses on topics in philosophy of law as well as on moral
and politicalphilosophy.Shehaspublishedextensivelyonphilosophicalproblems
of the criminal law, as well as on rational choice theory. She is currently writing
a book entitled “Contractarian Legal Theory.”
patricia greenspan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Marylandat
College Park. She is the author of two books, Emotions and Reasons (1988) and
Practical Guilt(1995), along withnumerousarticlesonemotion,rationality,meta-