Abstract
Abstract Practical reasoning is something that each of us sometimes engages in when we are figuring out what to do. When we think explicitly about what to do in light of the reasons we take ourselves to have, we are engaging in practical reasoning. Of course, we often exercise complex practical skills without engaging in explicit thinking about what to do. Examples might include a soldier picking his way through an enemy village or a florist putting together a bouquet. To call these skillful actions exercises of “practical reasoning” would be to stretch that term so far as to lose contact with the main body of philosophical thinking about practical reasoning, which takes it to be an explicit mode of thinking.
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