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Tables of Contents for The Architecture of Reason
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: Experience and Reason
3
10
I THEORETICAL REASON
Groundwork
13
19
Sources and Grounds of Justification
13
7
Defeasibility and Prima Facie Justification
20
1
Epistemic Autonomy
21
3
Coherence
24
4
Relativity and the Contextual Element in Justification
28
1
Contextualized Foundations
29
3
Superstructure
32
29
Spontaneous Influence
32
2
Inferential Belief
34
1
Inferential Grounds
35
3
The Transmission of Justification
38
2
Defeasibility and the Cartesian Response to It
40
3
Principles of Generation, Transmission, and Defeasibility
43
3
The Role of Coherence in Justification
46
2
Internal Accessibility
48
1
Justification, Rationalist, and Reasons
49
6
Rationality Viewed as a Virtue Concept
55
6
II PRACTICAL REASON
Action, Belief, and Desire
61
20
A Structural Analogy between Relief and Action
62
1
Cognitive and Behavioral Hierarchies
63
2
Inferential Belief and Intentional Action
65
3
Some Rationality Constraints on Desires
68
3
The Possibility of Rationality for Intrinsic Desire
71
3
Desires, Intentions, anti Values
74
2
Foundations, Coherentist, and Functionalist Conceptions of Practical Rationality
76
3
A Procedural Instrumentalism
79
2
The Sources of Practical Reasons
81
27
The Phenomenology of Intrinsic Desire
81
2
Pleasure as an Object of Intrinsic Desire
83
3
Elemental Desires
86
3
Agent-Centered Aspects of Desire
89
2
Three Kinds of Desire
91
3
Pleasure, Pain, and the Good
94
4
Experience as a Locus of Value
98
1
Intrinsic Value and Inherent Value
99
2
A Cognitive Analogue of Basic Rational Desires
101
3
Practical Skepticism and the Egocentric Point of View
104
2
Desire and Valuation
106
2
Desires, Intentions, and Reasons for Action
108
27
Desire and Intention
108
4
Rational Desire and Reasons for Action
112
2
The Authority of the Theoretical over the Practical
114
2
Instrumentally Rational Action
116
1
Beliefs as Underlying Elements in Rational Actions
117
2
Some Major Kinds of Reasons for Action
119
3
The Normative Power of Desire
122
1
Difficulties for Instrumentalism
123
4
Hedonic Value, Desire, and Reasons for Action
127
2
The Internal Grounds of Rational Action
129
2
The Mutual Irreducibility of Practical and Theoretical Reason
131
4
Others as Ends
135
36
Rationality from the Inside Out
136
3
Altruism as a Rational Disposition
139
6
The Limited Priority of the Near at Hand
145
3
Towards a Reasonable Altruism
148
5
Obstacles to Recognizing the Rationality of Altruistic Desires
153
2
Altruism as a Basis for Moral Dispositions
155
2
Altruism as a Pathway to Moral Principles
157
5
The Status of Moral Reasons
162
3
Practical Reasons and the Epistemic Autonomy of Ethics
165
1
Cognitivism and Objectivity
166
5
III RATIONALITY AND RELATIVITY
Relativity, Plurality, and Culture
171
24
Rationality and the Space of Relativity
172
1
Relativity to Grounds
173
3
Genetic Relativity
176
2
Relativity of Rational Content
178
1
Conceptual Relativity
179
1
Doxastic Relativity
180
2
Relativity of Normative Status
182
3
The Permissiveness of Rationality
185
3
The Practice Conception of Rationality
188
3
Objectivity and Realism in the Theory of Rationality
191
4
Global Rationality
195
32
The Range of Criteria for Global Rationality
193
6
Desire, Belief, and Will
199
3
The Rationality of Attitudes and Emotions
202
2
Structural Features of Global Rationality
204
3
Integration and Coherence
207
4
Voluntariness and Autonomy
211
2
Substantive Elements in Rationality
213
2
The Substantive Latitude of the Concept of Happiness
215
3
The Place of Other-Regarding Desire in Global Rationality
218
3
Reason and Morality
221
1
Rationality, Reasonableness, and Irrationality
222
1
The Internal Constitution of Rationality
223
4
Conclusion
227
8
Notes
235
42
Index
277