| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| I | How to Do Things with Principles | 3 |
| Intellectual Functions | 3 |
| Interpersonal Functions | 9 |
| Personal Functions | 12 |
| Overcoming Temptation | 14 |
| Sunk Costs | 21 |
| Symbolic Utility | 26 |
| Teleological Devices | 35 |
| II | Decision-Value | 41 |
| Newcomb's Problem | 41 |
| Prisoner's Dilemma | 50 |
| Finer Distinctions: Consequences and Goals | 59 |
| III | Rational Belief | 64 |
| Cognitive Goals | 67 |
| Responsiveness to Reasons | 71 |
| Rules of Rationality | 75 |
| Belief | 93 |
| Bias | 100 |
| IV | Evolutionary Reasons | 107 |
| Reasons and Facts | 107 |
| Fitness and Function | 114 |
| Rationality's Function | 119 |
| V | Instrumental Rationality and Its Limits | 133 |
| Is Instrumental Rationality Enough? | 133 |
| Rational Preferences | 139 |
| Testability, Interpretation, and Conditionalization | 151 |
| Philosophical Heuristics | 163 |
| Rationality's Imagination | 172 |
| Notes | 183 |
| Subject Index | 219 |
| Index of Names | 224 |
