Abstract

I defend an account of agency which holds that a more desirable, empirically accurate, model of rationality must reject certain well-entrenched assumptions about the connection between logic and good reasoning. I argue following Cherniak, that models of rationality must use desire fulfillment, and not just logic or probability theory as the ultimate normative standard of rational choice . Cherniak's theory is expanded upon, defended from both real and imagined critics , and distinguished from the positions of Stich, the Positivists and Relativists.