Titlebook: Reasoning Unbound; Thinking about Moral Jean-Fran?ois Bonnefon Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 reasoning.thi

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Is Reasoning Useful?,e everyday conditions in which we reason. Refocusing on uncertainty, preferences, and intuitions allows specialists of reasoning to tackle social concerns; and it makes research on reasoning fully interoperable with research on decisions and morality.

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Decisions, consider how we use the rationality assumption (under its different guises) to predict what others will do or what they mean as well as the intuitive or deliberate nature of the reasoning processes that allow for these inferences.

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Decisions, the rationality assumption. The problems start, though, as soon as we try to define what we mean by “best decision.” Sometimes we mean the decision that benefit them the most. Sometimes we mean the decision that benefit others the most. And sometimes we mean something in between. In this chapter, I

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Morality,moral character. Starting from the idea that inferences about moral character are first and foremost inferences about cooperative potential, we consider in turn two components of cooperative potential: other-regarding preferences and cultural competence. We explore the chains of inferences that go f

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Delusions,fs that respond to incentives rather than evidence) and to the kind of reasoning that sustains these delusions against contradictory evidence. We then add a layer of complexity by considering how well we reason about the motivated beliefs of others, why these inferences are important, and the resear

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Democracy,st voters understand essentially nothing of the policies they vote for. It would seem natural to think that the psychology of reasoning might be helpful in that respect—that is, that we could help citizens to vote better. I argue that this is extremely unlikely to work. The second challenge is that