{"id":346,"date":"2026-03-26T14:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/jacobross\/?page_id=346"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:53:37","slug":"practical-reason","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/jacobross\/practical-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1K0lGA18ktdcguWaIIfIKYCW_7488a7Cb\/view\" target=\"_blank\">A Qualified Defense of Expected Value Maximization<\/a>,&#8221; Analysis, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1DTZSdFxIf_0u5MFeTIf8BkFOodr5qMqm\/view\" target=\"_blank\">Divided We Fall: Fission and the Failure of Self-Interest<\/a>,&#8221; Philosophical Perspectives 28(1), 2014<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1h1ndp9i0cg6es11g1d0rRcM5GwVzo-SK\/view\" target=\"_blank\">Rationality, Normativity, and Commitment<\/a>&#8221; Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 7, Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), OUP, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1c-AQhJEnjmSYlilvuT1WLEn9-EOq-3di\/view\" target=\"_blank\">How to be a Cognitivist about Practical Reason<\/a>&#8221; Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 4, Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), OUP, 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-346","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Practical Reason - Jacob Ross<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jacob Ross is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at USC, working in ethics, epistemology, and practical reason. 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