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2417Vague Projects and the Puzzle of the Self-TorturerEthics 123 (1): 86-112. 2012.In this paper we advance a new solution to Quinn’s puzzle of the self-torturer. The solution falls directly out of an application of the principle of instrumental reasoning to what we call “vague projects”, i.e., projects whose completion does not occur at any particular or definite point or moment. The resulting treatment of the puzzle extends our understanding of instrumental rationality to projects and ends that cannot be accommodated by orthodox theories of rational choice.
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2109Friendship and the Law of Reason: Baier and Kant on Love and PrinciplesIn C. J. Williams Jenkins (ed.), Persons, Promises, and Practices, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 250-280. 2005.
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32Speculative Mistakes and Ordinary Temptations: Kant on Instrumentalist Conceptions of Practical ReasonHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 20 (2): 203-223. 2003.
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