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. > >See his: > >Larry Wright, "Argument and Deliberation: A Plea for Understanding", >_Journal of Philosophy_, Nov. 1995, pp. 565-585. > >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. > >Greg Ransom >Dept. of Philosophy >UC-Riverside >[log in to unmask] > > >