"Acting in conformity with reason, in the singular, and acting for good reasons, in the plural, are two different thin…"

"Let us take first an absurd example: always preferring goods that come on Thursdays to those that come on Wednesdays,…"

"Characterized in this way, interest properly understood is an amalgam of objective and subjective elements. An entire…"

"In this reconstruction, the idea of reason comprises three elements: impartiality with regard to persons, temporal im…"

"In a general way, we can represent the present value of a future good as a function of the time separating the presen…"

"For action to be rational, the beliefs on which it is based must themselves be well founded. In turn, this requiremen…"

"Biases are either “hot” (that is, produced by the agent’s motivational system) or “cold” (more similar to optical ill…"

"For a rational actor, the information he uses to shape his beliefs is a variable rather than a given. Before deciding…"

"The premise of this statement is what one might call the principle of non-indirection. I call “indirection” an indire…"

"The theory of rational action may therefore fail, because it is unable to produce unique prescriptions and prediction…"