SUGDEN, ROBERT - In: Economics and Philosophy 22 (2006) 03, pp. 365-391
Hume is often read as proposing an instrumental theory of decision, in which an agent's choices are rational if they maximally satisfy her desires, given her beliefs. In fact, Hume denies that rationality can be attributed to actions. I argue that this is not a gap needing to be filled. Hume's...