Thinking Clearly about Reasons Why practical reasons for belief are like reasons for chocolate I recall being baffled, as an undergraduate student, by the debates over epistemic vs practical reasons for belief: “If the fate of the world depended on it, who could deny that having the world-saving belief was more important than having an epistemically rational belief?” I only later realized that of course nobody does deny that. My mistake was thinking that reasons must be markers of importance,...