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Letting rationalizations out of the box

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

Philip Pärnamets Open the ORCID record for Philip Pärnamets [Opens in a new window] ,
Petter Johansson  and
Lars Hall
Philip Pärnamets
Affiliation:
Faculty of Philosophy, New York University, New York, NY10003. philip.parnamets@nyu.eduhttps://philipparnamets.github.io Division of Psychology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
Petter Johansson
Affiliation:
Lund University Cognitive Science, Lund University, S-221 00, Lund, Sweden. petter.johansson@lucs.lu.sehttps://www.lucs.lu.se/choice-blindness-group/lars.hall@lucs.lu.sehttps://www.lucs.lu.se/choice-blindness-group/
Lars Hall
Affiliation:
Lund University Cognitive Science, Lund University, S-221 00, Lund, Sweden. petter.johansson@lucs.lu.sehttps://www.lucs.lu.se/choice-blindness-group/lars.hall@lucs.lu.sehttps://www.lucs.lu.se/choice-blindness-group/
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Abstract

We are very happy that someone has finally tried to make sense of rationalization. But we are worried about the representational structure assumed by Cushman, particularly the “boxology” belief-desire model depicting the rational planner, and it seems to us he fails to accommodate many of the interpersonal aspects of representational exchange.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e41
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