ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the overall dialectic of the book, points out the implications of the defended view, in particular for the current debate on the normativity of rationality, and it presents some further interesting avenues of research within the ethics of mind. Overall, the book has defended that we’re directly responsible for complying with rational requirements. It has offered a hybrid view of mental responsibility that is rationalist in spirit but contains voluntarist elements. It has defended the normativity of right-kind reasons and has thereby met an underappreciated challenge for the normativity of rationality. It has been argued that irrationality can give rise to genuine moral blameworthiness. Finally, it has defended a close connection between substantive rationality and a kind of structural rationality. Further avenues of research on reasons for attitudes, relationship-based duties, responsibility to ourselves, and on debates in applied epistemology are pointed out.
