Victor Frankenstein y la racionalidad instrumental = Victor Frankenstein and the instrumental rationality
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Instrumental Desires , Instrumental Rationality
The requirements of instrumental rationality are often thought to be normative conditions on choice or intention, but this is a mistake. Instrumental rationality is best understood as a requirement of coherence on an agent's non-instrumental desires and means-end beliefs. Since only a subset of an agent's means-end beliefs concern possible actions, the connection with intention is thus more obl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Estudios Humanísticos. Filología
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2444-023X,0213-1382
DOI: 10.18002/ehf.v0i42.6260