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Association: Name: MPSA Annual National Conference URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Stone, Peter. "Picking and Choosing Revisited" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 03, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-01-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p265771_index.html>

Stone, P. , 2008-04-03 "Picking and Choosing Revisited" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2010-01-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p265771_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Human behavior, like everything else, has causes. Most of the time, those causes can be described as reasons. Human beings perform actions because they have reasons for performing them. They are capable of surveying the options available and then selecting the one with the best reasons recommending it. But invariably occasions arise in which the reasons for acting are equally good for two or more options. On such an occasion, the agent is indifferent between these options. Selection from within this set cannot then be based on reasons. Instead, the agent must fall back upon a causal process unrelated to reasons. The agent “picks,” but does not “choose.” This paper investigates the phenomenon of picking, situating it within a broader account of rational decision-making. It specifies the circumstances under which the phenomenon (justifiably) arises. It distinguishes between picking and a variety of closely related phenomena, such as selection based upon brute desire, acting upon “hunches,” and selection via formal lottery such as a coin toss. It concludes that picking requires people to resort to a special class of reasons in order to justify their behavior.

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