Practical Reasoning

This chapter presents a first-order account of reasoning with attitudes other than beliefs. Like belief reasoning, reasoning in general is a process whereby some of your attitudes cause you to acquire a new attitude. Such a process is reasoning only if it satisfies some further conditions. The author identifies what those conditions are. The conditions will apply to all sorts of reasoning. He is particularly concerned with intention reasoning, which is reasoning that concludes in an intention. It is the central case of practical reasoning. The chapter concentrates on practical reasoning. It also briefly mentions another sort of reasoning called the hypothetical reasoning.