Conventional economic theory assumes that economic agents are rational decisionmakers in the sense that they act as if they were trying to maximize some one-dimensional criterion. A well-known body of experimental work has increasingly shed doubt on the assumption that human beings are rational...

Conceptual role semantics (CRS) is the view that the meanings of expressions of a language (or other symbol system) or the contents of mental states are determined or explained by the role of the expressions or mental states in thinking. The theory can be taken to be applicable to language in...

Fred Schauer's <em>The Force of Law</em> neglects an important way in which the law can motivate people. It shapes our moral reasons. Schauer's response to my original essay that he is concerned with empirical motivations, not normative reasons, misses the point. His empirical argument depends crucially...