Commentary on Baumtrog’s “Investigating the Impact of Moral Relativism and Objectivism on Practical Reasonableness”

Anders Breivik’s unusually comprehensive and articulate descriptions of the reasoning that led him to slaughter dozens of his fellow Norwegians provide a basis for testing models of practical reasoning, practical rationality and practical reasonableness. Michael Baumtrog’s model takes a decision to be practically reasonable if and only if it adopts a set of means that are sufficient for realizing a goal that the decision-maker has a reason to …