1st Edition
Knowledge and Rational Action Why What We Know Matters for the Rationality of What We Do
By Roman Heil
Copyright 2026
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book motivates and systematically develops the view that knowledge should be at the centre of our theory of practical rationality.
“Only act on what you know!”—the book offers the first comprehensive defence of this slogan in the form of a knowledge-based decision theory. The proposed view is shown to be the most straightforward explanation of emerging bodies of evidence for a link between... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Intuitive Data
3. Knowledge Norms
4. Unknown Unknowns
5. Known Knowns
6. Known Unknowns
7. Conclusion
Biography
Roman Heil is a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. His research focuses on epistemology and practical rationality.
