Description: Practical reasoning is not just a matter of determining how to get what you want, but of working out what to want in the first place. In Practical Induction Elijah Millgram argues that experience plays a central role in this process of deciding what is or is not important or worth pursuing. He takes aim at instrumentalism, a view predominant among philosophers today, which holds that the goals of practical reasoning am basic in the sense that they me given by desires that are not themselves the product of practical reasoning. The view Millgram defends is "practical induction, " a method of reasoning from experience similar to theoretical induction.

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