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Luc Bovens's "Sour Grapes and Character Planning" (*The Journal of Philosophy*, Vol. 89, No. 2, February 1992, pp. 57–78) is a canonical paper in the [[adaptive-preferences]] literature. Writing as a graduate student at Minnesota (the paper is "a shortened version of the first chapter of my Ph.D. dissertation, *Reasons for Preferences*"), Bovens sets out to solve a puzzle Jon Elster raised in *Sour Grapes* (1983): **why do we call one preference shift irrational (the fox deciding the grapes are sour after he fails to reach them) and another preference shift rational (the poker player who decid…

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