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Social Psychology And Practical Reasoning: An Empirical Challenge To The Possibility Of Practical Reasoning?

Dale Lynn Holt

Philosophical Forum 20 (4):311-325 (1989)

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Rationality is hard work: An alternative interpretation of the disruptive effects of thinking about reasons.D. Lynn Holt - 1993 - Philosophical Psychology 6 (3):251 – 266.details Recent experimental work by T.D. Wilson et al. indicates that a consequence of asking subjects to reflect on their attitudes is that they not only reduce the consistency between their attitudes and behavior, but they perform actions which they come to regret. Wilson interprets this work via intra-psychic concepts, and arrives at the conclusion that it is rational to avoid deliberating about a wide range of attitudes and behaviors. This consequence has objectionable implications for philosophical theories of deliberative practical rationality. (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Rationality is still hard work: Some further notes on the disruptive effects of deliberation.L. Holt - 1999 - Philosophical Psychology 12 (2):215-219.details A brief review of recent experimental work by T.D. Wilson et al. on the disruptive effects of deliberation provides an opportunity for extending an alternative interpretation of those effects first offered in this journal [D.L. Holt (1993) Rationality is hard work: an alternative interpretation of the disruptive effects of thinking about reasons, Philosophical Psychology, 6, 251-266]. I therefore propose a thought experiment in which the favored parameters of much social psychological experimentation, including the specific parameters of Wilson et al., are (...) reversed. (shrink) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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