Instrumental Mythology
Abstract
Instrumental Rationality: A Reprise
Joseph Raz
Instrumental Rationality: Not Dead Yet
David Sobel
The Myth of Instrumental Rationality
Joseph Raz
Comment on Raz
R. Jay Wallace
Two Approaches to Instrumental Rationality and Belief Consistency
John Brunero
Have We Reason to Do as Rationality Requires? A Comment on Raz
John Broome
The Goal Problem in the “Now What” Problem
Xinkan Zhao
A New Theory of Humean Reasons? A Critical Note on Schroeder’s Hypotheticalism
Matthew Bedke
Hume’s Internalism Reconsidered
Dale Dorsey
In Defense of the Wide-Scope Instrumental Principle
Simon Rippon
Rationality and Responding to Normative Reasons
Mohamad Hadi Safaei
Rationality, Shmationality: Even Newer Shmagency Worries
Olof Leffler
The Normativity of Rationality: An Imperfect Duty to Be Coherent
Lisa Bastian, The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2025
Responsibility and the Demands of Morality
Stephen J White, Oxford University Press, 2025
An Instrumentalist Unification of Zetetic and Epistemic Reasons
Asbjørn Steglich‐Petersen, Inquiry, 2021
Reasons and Defeasible Reasoning
John Brunero, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2021
Instrumental Rationality
John Brunero, Oxford University Press, 2020
How Do Reasons Transmit to Non-Necessary Means?
Benjamin Kiesewetter and Jan Gertken, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2020
The Instrumental Rule
Jeremy David Fix, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2020
The Importance of Being Rational
Errol Lord, Oxford University Press, 2018
Rationality and Power in Land Use Planning
Bernard Adjei-Poku, Journal of Planning Literature, 2017
What You’re Rationally Required to Do and What You Ought to Do (Are the Same Thing!)
Errol Lord, Mind, 2016
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