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S08: Metaethics, Rationality & Decision Theory 1 Location: 23.03 01.24 Session Chair: Daniele Bruno | |
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3:00pm - 3:45pm
Deciding Decision-Making Away 1: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; 2: Oxford University We argue that when faced with a hard decision, we can and sometimes should decide decision-making away by (e.g.) flipping a coin. Deciding decision-making away might look suspect: it seems that conforming with the verdict of a coin flip and φ-ing as a result involves making the decision to φ. To address this worry, we inquire into the psychological structures that make deciding decision-making away possible. Our main contention is that it involves conditional intentions: you form the intention to φ if the coin lands on heads and ψ otherwise. We then use some commonly accepted features of intention to show why we do not make the decision to φ when the coin flip tells us to φ. We conclude by examining the normative status of deciding decision-making away. Not only is it often permissible, whether the choice situation is mundane or life-defining; deciding decision-making away is sometimes required. | |

