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Reasons to act and the mental representation of consequentialist aberrations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2008

Jean-François Bonnefon
Jean-François Bonnefon
Affiliation:
CLLE, CNRS, and Université de Toulouse, Maison de la Recherche, 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9, France. bonnefon@univ-tlse2.frhttp://w3.univ-tlse2.fr/ltc/bonnefon/
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Abstract

If imagination is guided by the same principles as rational thoughts, then we ought not to stop at the way people make inferences to get insights about the workings of imagination; we ought to consider as well the way they make rational choices. This broader approach accounts for the puzzling effect of reasons to act on the mutability of actions.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 5-6 , December 2007 , pp. 453 - 454
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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