Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2007 - Volume 30, Issue 5-6  

Open Peer Commentary

Reasons to act and the mental representation of consequentialist aberrations

Jean-François Bonnefona1

a1 CLLE, CNRS, and Université de Toulouse, Maison de la Recherche, 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9, France. bonnefon@univ-tlse2.fr http://w3.univ-tlse2.fr/ltc/bonnefon/

Abstract

If imagination is guided by the same principles as rational thoughts, then we ought not to stop at the way people make inferences to get insights about the workings of imagination; we ought to consider as well the way they make rational choices. This broader approach accounts for the puzzling effect of reasons to act on the mutability of actions.

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