ABSTRACT
This chapter situates the project of the book within the recent debate about the normativity of rationality. In particular, I show how my overall argument in the book allows us to defend a close connection between rationality and reasons. The chapter argues that, if we focus on cases in which we are responsible for being (ir)rational, then being irrationally incoherent implies that one didn’t respond correctly to one’s right-kind reasons. This is an important link between structural rationality and substantive rationality: being substantively rational implies that one is structurally rational (in an important sense of ‘structurally rational’). The argument that is developed assumes that our capacity to respond to so-called ‘right-kind’ reasons grounds a kind of direct responsibility for attitudes. The remainder of the book defends this assumption. Overall, the book thereby illustrates how theories of rationality can benefit from thinking more about responsibility.
