Volume 75, Issue 1, July 2007
Christian Miller
Pages 1-40
The Structure of Instrumental Practical Reasoning
Standard views of instrrumental practical reasoning often appeal just to an end-directed desire and a means-end belief. I argue that such accounts are insufficient when it comes to the practical lives of agents. Instead I offer a novel view of such reasoning, the heart of which is the addition of a normative belief concerning the desirability of the agent’s end.