Many thanks.  Warren 
 
 
>Warren, on the centrally important point that some parts or 
>our decision making is nondeliberative, and some parts are 
>deliberative, I couldn't recomment more highly the recent work 
>of _my_ intellectual mentor and thesis advisor Larry Wright. 
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>See his: 
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>Larry Wright, "Argument and Deliberation:  A Plea for Understanding", 
>_Journal of Philosophy_, Nov. 1995, pp. 565-585. 
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>Wright, IMHO, (and I am biased on this matter), is one of the great 
>thinkers currently on the scence.  Alex Rosenberg bluntly calls Wright 
>the most important writer on teleology since Aristotle (see Wright, 
>_Teleological Explanation_), and he does so without any tone of 
exageration. 
>>From my own perspective, this work on teleology is just a part of far 
>deeper insights on deliberation, skills, argument, and understanding which 
>are to be found in Wright.  Some of Wright's own intellectual mentors and 
>influences include Michael Scriven, Norwood Hanson, and Wesley Salmon 
>as teachers, and Thomas Kuhn and Ludwig Wittgenstein and intellectual in- 
>fluences.  I think, Warren, that you will find Wright's discussion of 
>the role of background understanding, tacit nondeliberative skill, and 
>argument structure in deliberative argumentation to be helpful in thinking 
>about the some of the relations between nondeliberative and deliberative 
>decision making. 
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>Greg Ransom 
>Dept. of Philosophy 
>UC-Riverside 
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