Knowledge and Rational Action

<p>This book motivates and systematically develops the view that knowledge should be at the centre of our theory of practical rationality.</p><p>“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 knowledge and rational action. The book provides novel solutions to well-known challenges that invoke high-stakes scenarios seemingly rational actions based on reasonable but false beliefs and decision-making under risk and uncertainty. The emerging view brings together traditional and formal approaches to epistemology and the study of practical rationality. The resulting knowledge-based decision theory is embedded in a rich normative landscape encompassing innovative accounts of excuses rational acceptance and the simplification of reasoning.</p><p><i>Knowledge and Rational Action</i> will be of great interest to researchers and graduate students interested in epistemology practical rationality and decision theory.</p>