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Decisions to follow a rule

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Paul Weirich
Paul Weirich
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211 [email protected] http://web.missouri.edu/~philwww/people/weirich.html
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Abstract

Rachlin favors following patterns over making decisions case by case. However, his accounts of self-control and altruism do not establish the rationality of making decisions according to patterns. The best arguments for using patterns as a standard of evaluation appeal to savings in cognitive costs and compensation for irrational dispositions. What the arguments show depends on how they are elaborated and refined.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 280 - 281
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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