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REASONS TO NOT BELIEVE (AND REASONS TO ACT)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2016

Blake Roeber
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Abstract

In “Reasons to Believe and Reasons to Act,” Stewart Cohen argues that balance of reasons accounts of rational action get the wrong results when applied to doxastic attitudes, and that there are therefore important differences between reasons to believe and reasons to act. In this paper, I argue that balance of reasons accounts of rational action get the right results when applied to the cases that Cohen considers, and that these results highlight interesting similarities between reasons to believe and reasons to act. I also consider an argument for Cohen's conclusion based on the principle that Adler, Moran, Shah, Velleman and others call “transparency.” I resist this argument by explaining why transparency is itself doubtful.

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Episteme , Volume 13 , Special Issue 4: 2015 Episteme Conference , December 2016 , pp. 439 - 448
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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