Coda: The Tyranny of Value

Abstract

This coda concludes the book by considering the demand to show that it’s valuable to be structurally rational, issuing a brief polemic against this demand and the broader value-centric picture of normativity that underlies it. It suggests that neither the requirements of structural rationality nor the requirements of substantive rationality are best understood in terms of value and that this is just an instance of a more general moral that not all normativity can be understood in terms of value.