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Motivating Reasons and Normative Reasons

2018
Reasons for action are traditionally divided into “motivating reasons,” which explain why someone did something, and “normative reasons,” which concern why she should (or should not) have done it. We explore various positions concerning both types of reason, and the relations between them.
David McNaughton, Piers Rawling
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Consistency-motivated reason maintenance in hypothetical reasoning

New Generation Computing, 1997
We present a general framework for logic-based hypothetical reasoning, which introduces truth maintenance, as a collection of truth tables, to Theorist-like hypothetical reasoning systems. This framework uses full first-order logic, performs nonmonotonic reasoning by maintaining refutable theories, and incrementally identifies and records information ...
Abdul Sattar 0001, Randy Goebel
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Motivated Reasoning

2023
AbstractIs human reasoning bound to be biased by our values? Split-brain patients are prone to make up explanations to justify peculiar behavior, but so do neurotypical individuals, including neuroscientists. Confabulation, rationalization, and other forms of motivated reasoning can make anyone biased in their collection or assessment of evidence.
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Motivated Reasoning and Public Opinion

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2011
Citizens, especially those who are knowledgeable and care the most about politics, are motivated to defend their beliefs and attitudes in the face of discrepant information. These motivated biases strongly influence the way people think about health care policies and the politicians and parties that propose or attack these contentious policies.
April A, Strickland, Charles S, Taber, Milton, Lodge   +2 more
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Motivating Discounts: Price Motivated Reasoning

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
The behavioral implications of large discounts have been viewed from two opposing perspectives. From an attribution perspective, a large discount signals low quality and decreases the overall appeal of the product, but from a motivational account, a large discount seems attractive and increases the overall appeal of the product.
On Amir, Erica Dawson
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Motivated About Motivated Reasoning

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Eileen Braman’s Law, Politics & Perception: How Policy Preferences Influence Legal Reasoning invokes the cognitive psychology theory of “motivated reasoning” to explain not only how judges might sincerely believe that their rulings are based on legal authorities even as they choose outcomes consistent with their attitudinal preferences but also how ...
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Reasoning to Rationalize or to be Accurate? Individuals’ Inclination for Systematic Processing and Reasoning-Motivations in Motivated Reasoning

2022
The central aim of this registered report is to investigate possible effects of reasoning motivations on the interaction of cognitive style and motivated reasoning. It is suggested that the effects of cognitive style on motivated reasoning are dependent on the reasoning motivation in a way that an accuracy motivation leads to the attenuation of ...
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MOTIVATING EPISTEMIC REASONS FOR ACTION

Grazer Philosophische Studien, 2009
Rowbottom (2008) has recently challenged my definition of epistemic reasons for action and has offered an alternative account. In this paper, I argue that less than giving an 'alternative' definition, Rowbottom has offered an additional condition to my original account. I argue, further, that such an extra condition is unnecessary, i.e.
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REASONS AND MOTIVATION—NOT A WRONG DISTINCTION

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2006
This paper responds to Susan Hurley's attempt to undermine the adequacy of the distinction at the heart of the internalism-externalism debate about reasons for action. The paper shows that Hurley's argument fails and then, more positively, indicates a neat way to characterize the distinction.
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