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Standard models of practical rationality face a puzzle that has gone unnoticed: given a modest assumption about the nature of deliberation, we are apparently frequently briefly irrational. I explain the problem, consider what is wrong with several possible solutions, and propose an account that does not generate the objectionable result.
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Vargas, M. Practical Reason, Instrumental Irrationality, and Time. Philos Stud 126, 241–252 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-004-7787-0
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