Criticism and Defense of Rationality in Contemporary Philosophy
... rationality , free from references to reason . I argue that the account of rationality which I give is grounded in the knowledge of how human minds actually work . 1. Rationality and Reason Skepticism about transcendental reason as ...
Money, Time, and Rationality in Max Weber
... rationality of borrowing also indicates the significance of rationality in the context of actors ' social relationships . Alternative understandings of Weber on formal rationality Weber's criticisms of socialism are concerned with ...
Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality
... rationality , or the scope of reason itself ; indeed scientific method presupposes prior notions of rationality , and , as will become clear soon , the truth of ultimate value judgments cannot be scientifically verified by an ...
Rationality
Collective rationality depends on norms that are explicitly designed to promote objectivity and truth. Rationality matters.
Models of Bounded Rationality: Empirically grounded economic reason
... rationality . In Lucas's rational expecta- tionist theory of the cycle , the corresponding cognitive limitation is ... rationality , but from different views as to where and when these assump- tions cease to hold - that is , upon ...
The Sentiment of Rationality
... rationality as he recog- nizes everything else , by certain subjective marks with which it affects him . When he gets the marks , he may know that he has got the rationality . What , then , are the marks ? A strong feeling of ease ...
Rationality and Freedom
Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues.
Common Sense, Reasoning, and Rationality
... rationality , calculative rationality is a requirement that can be fulfilled by many real programs . Also unlike perfect rationality , calculative rationality is not necessarily a desirable property . For example , a calculatively ...
Minimal Rationality
Christopher Cherniak. Minimal. Rationality. The most basic law of psychology is a rationality constraint on an agent's beliefs , desires , and actions : No rationality , no agent . How rational must a creature be to be an agent , that is ...
Christian Doctrine Harmonized and Its Rationality Vindicated
... rationality of the same . This absolute rationality it is the aim of the present treatise to exhibit . And the whole history of the formation of the Christian creeds shows the obligation that Dogmatics has been under to the speculative ...
The Swedenborg Library: Freedom, rationality, and catholicity
... rationality and liberty , and cannot be reformed and regenerated without them ; because by rationality he can understand , and know what is evil and what is good , and therefore what is false and what is true ; and by liberty he may in ...
Discourses on the Rationality of the Christian Religion and the Harmony of its Doctrines
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Science, Rationality, and Neoclassical Economics
... rationality . The following section will explore rational choice as defined by the postulate of rationality . Neoclassical Economic Theory and the Postulate of Rationality Any study of contemporary neoclassical economic theory would ...
Rationality and Commitment
The volume concludes with a specially-written reply by Sen, in which he responds to his critics and provides a rich commentary on the preceding essays.
Rationality and the Reflective Mind
In Rationality and the Reflective Mind, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive science--the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition.
Bounded Rationality and Public Policy
... rationality rather than the market. The alternative extension of market failure requires a definition of P(ε, y). As we saw in the previous chapter, a compelling definition of welfare is not easily available given bounded rationality ...
Elements of Reason
Advances in the social sciences are used to uncover cognitive foundations of social decision making.
The Value of Rationality
One kind of assessment of these states and processes is commonly expressed by the word 'rational'. This book explains what this means.
Reason's Neglect
Finally, the book presents an example of new rational management techniques being introduced in an organization and, by allowing individuals to 'speak for themselves', examines how they respond to these innovations, and how they make sense ...
Rationality
An introduction to one of the major controversies in the modern philosophy of science. The author describes the philosophical problem of rationality and provides a new approach to its solution.