{"product_id":"instrumental-rationality","title":"Instrumental Rationality","description":"\u003cp\u003eRationality requires that we intend the means that we believe are necessary for achieving our ends. Instrumental Rationality 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. Means-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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Brunero","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573228306493,"sku":"9780198746935","price":182.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780198746935.jpg?v=1788513211","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/instrumental-rationality","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}