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Does evolution inform the ancient debate regarding the roles that reason and instinct play in how we decide what to do? Sociobiologists adopt Darwinism as a premise from which they draw conclusions about ethics, but upon analysis, our understanding of how

How can we motivate ourselves to do what we think we ought? How can we deliberate about personal values and priorities? Bennett Helm rejects the standard philosophical answers to these questions, which presuppose a sharp distinction between cognition and impulse, and develops a detailed alternative theory both of emotions, desires, and evaluative judgments and of their rational interconnections. The result is an innovative theory of practical rationality and how we can control not only what we do but also what we value and who we are as persons.