A reason to be rational

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62 (9-10):1008-1032 (2019)
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ABSTRACTThis essay argues that in spite of the powerful arguments by Kolodny and Broome there is a reason to be rational. The suggested reason to be rational is that if an agent complies with ratio...

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10.1080/0020174x.2018.1470570

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