Practical reasoning and inference

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• Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading and University of Texas at Austin)
• Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:30-18:00
• Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

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One way of capturing the force of practical reasoning, or deliberation, is to think of it as inference (e.g. the practical syllogism). I reject this inferential model, and offer another, under which the force of reasoning is of a rather different sort. The conclusion of a process of deliberation can, on this new model, be an action, and such deliberation can have a structure, but it is not inferential structure.

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