Oxford, England: Oxford University Press (
2012)
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Abstract
An account of the virtues of limitation management: intellectual virtues of adapting to the fact that we cannot solve many of the problems that we can describe. I argue that the best response to many problems depends not on the most rationally promising solution, but on the most likely route to success.
I argue against techniques that assume that one will fulfil ones intentions, and distinguish between failures of rationality and failures of intelligence.
I describe the trap of supposing that one will be capable of following the plan that would best exploit ones limited resources.