{"product_id":"instrumental-rationality-john-brunero-9780198746935","title":"Instrumental Rationality: The Normativity of Means-Ends Coherence","description":"Rationality requires that we intend the means that we believe are necessary for achieving our ends. \u003cem\u003eInstrumental Rationality\u003c\/em\u003e explores the formulation and status of this requirement of means-ends coherence. In particular, it is concerned with understanding what means-ends coherence requires of us as believers and agents, and why. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeans-ends coherence is a genuine requirement of rationality and cannot be explained away as a myth, confused with a disjunction of requirements to have, or not have, specific attitudes. Nor is means-ends coherence strongly normative, such that we always ought to be means-ends coherent. A promising strategy for assessing why this requirement should exist is to consider the constitutive aim of intention. Just as belief has a constitutive aim (truth) that can explain some of the theoretical requirements of consistency and coherence governing beliefs, intention has a constitutive aim (here called \"controlled action\") that can explain some of the requirements of consistency and coherence governing intentions. We can therefore better understand means-ends coherence by understanding the constitutive aims of both of the attitudes governed by the requirement, intention, and belief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Brunero\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198746938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198746935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/22\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"John Brunero","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941606719743,"sku":"9780198746935","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d22463fe-e98f-4c21-aefc-fea0db0b2393.jpg?v=1681453902","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/instrumental-rationality-john-brunero-9780198746935","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}