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| | Human Rational Behavior and Economic Rationality |
 | | Using rational choice terminology, this incorporation may produce greater benefits than costs, yet the cost is not insignificant insofar as not much is left from an initially unified model predicated on the proverbial same single agent, viz. | | | Thus, some economists and rational choice theorists consider this tautological property of un-testability a major advantage of their theory arguing that “there is no need for direct tests of the fundamental postulates in physics [...] or in economics-- the laws of maximizing utility and profit” (Machlup 1963:167). | | | Such instrumental considerations are of secondary importance, since no utility or other extrinsic reinforcements are maximized by the non-rational non-instrumental decisions involving consideration of internalized rules and values (Marini 1992:37) and other intrinsic motivation, as even some economists admit (Kreps 1997). |
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http://www.sociology.org/content/vol7.2/02_zafirovski.html
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| | Pluralism and Rationality: the limits of tolerance |
| | Inasmuch as educational policies are thought to generate some compendium of enjoinders to action in pursuit of supposedly independently specifiable goals, rationality in education tends to be predominantly instrumental with efficiency its measure. | | | Now, it is clear that intrinsic values cannot be the objects of rational choice except insofar as that choice pursues coherence. | | | A is "strongly rational" if and only if A's choices are pursuant to A's intrinsic values according to their rank order. |
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http://www.newfoundations.com/EGR/RatPlurTol.html
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| | patrissimo: Circular definition of rationality |
| | A truly rational person would spend 30 seconds to save $500, but I encounter people every day who refuse to spend that 30 seconds, even after they've paid the $500, and know that another $500 is on the way! | | | For instance, if 50% of stock market brokers act rationally, 25% overvalue stocks and 25% undervalue stocks, then a model of rational participants may still be able to explain the real world. | | | People always act as they conceive their interests to lie -- but the way they assess their interests can vary according to a lot of influences, including everything from ideology to immediate temptation. |
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http://patrissimo.livejournal.com/61239.html
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| | Vol. 8/9: Rationality II&III |
| | Acting ethically by constraining one's straighforward maximinzation therefore cannot be rationally justified. | | | Nevertheless there is an agreement of sorts that rationality cannot proceed mereley descriptively but has also normative implications. | | | Where the policy of straightforward maximization departs from the ethical choice, I argue, it does so because making that choice would be scrificial, supererogatory, even from the moral point of view. |
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http://www.protosociology.de/Vol8.htm
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| | 20th WCP: Ressentiment and Rationality |
| | My purpose is not simply to review the accounts provided by Nietzsche and Scheler, nor simply to offer an account of the nature of ressentiment, but to highlight an essential element of ressentiment which both of their accounts presuppose, but which neither makes explicit. | | | A single sketch of the typical elements of ressentiment is drawn from the review of these two accounts. | | | How could rationality be at the very core of affective corruption? |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Anth/AnthMore.htm
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| | Rationality/Science -- From Z Papers Special Issue |
| | They are by no means entirely clear, and there have been interesting efforts to criticize and clarify them; but we have enough of a grasp to proceed over a broad range. | | | These, however, are not the kinds of topics we are to address; rather, something about the legitimacy of the entire enterprise. | | | There is also at least an element of truth in the statement that the natural sciences are "disembedded from the body, from metaphorical thought, from ethical thought and from the world"--to their credit. |
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http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/95-science.html
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| | Rationality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Thus one speaks, for example, of a rational allocation of resources, or of a rational corporate strategy. | | | Continental rationalism is a school in which rationality and reason are the key methods by which we obtain knowledge, in opposition to empiricism which states that knowledge is obtained primarily via the senses. | | | In this concept of "rationality", the individual's goals or motives are taken for granted and not made subject to criticism, ethical or otherwise. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationality
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| | Skepticism of Rationality |
| | Just as economists have to specify whether they mean Pareto efficient or Caldor-Hicks efficient or one of the myriad other forms of efficiency they have defined. | | | How would we decide which are more rational? | | | What we would call rational then would be the methodology which gives the best results. |
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http://world.std.com/~mhuben/skept/rationality.html
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| | Rationality and the Lived World By Frederick Marglin |
| | The knowledge concerning generative processes was universalized and rationalized in the discourse of gynaecology. | | | Disembodied and disembedded rationality fulfilled all the necessary requirements to become the internalized panopticon. | | | Panopticized rationality, by keeping researchers outside the lived world they study makes the primary locus of care and responsibility the world of knowledge to which those researchers contribute and on which their professional careers and reputations depend rather than the lived world that is studied. |
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http://www.zmag.org/ScienceWars/lubiano.htm
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| | Faith and rationality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Advocates of Reformed epistemology assert that they have a criterion of proper basicality; one arrived at inductively. | | | Faith and rationality are two modes of belief which are seen to exist in varying degrees of conflict or compatibility. | | | For example, Fideism specifically recommends that one not be rational. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_and_rationality
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| | Technorati Tag: rationality |
| | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. | | | Now you can see the Top 100 Blogs, as measured by your Favorites! | | | Why it matters to be rational, and how you ca... |
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http://technorati.com/tag/rationality
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| | 20th WCP: Expertise and Rationality |
| | As Pierson describes it, Hardwig holds that '...as a general policy it is more rational to defer to the authority of experts rather than to think for oneself' (p. | | | Expert consultation is one resource for being rational. | | | The idea of non-rule-following rational abilities is of great help in accounting for how cognitively-limited humans manage to be rational even in those cases where rule-following is not tractably possible (see, e.g., Cherniak, 1986). |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/TKno/TKnoStar.htm
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| | Point . Design: Feedback on Design as Rationality |
| | In Duvenage's study, he shows that Habermas needs to be able to see disclosure as having important rational potential. | | | Rationality as such is not reducible to a given set of evaluative standards, but basically accrues to the way that justification is established, relative to processes of evidentiary evaluation, normative determination, and self-representation that are disputable. | | | It could be that ultimate value, e.g., vast coherence, is less a matter of rationality than of fruitfulness or some technical virtue (requiring explication as to *its* coherence) such as ultimate appropriateness. |
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http://point.blogs.com/neomodernism/2004/05/the_following_a.html
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| | Rationality in Science and Theology |
| | We will spend the least amount of time on this structure because most scholars interested in the shaping of rationality as a common resource in theology and science have moved beyond it. | | | This paper examines the structures of rationality that underlie the way we as individuals think and act, whether in science or in theology. | | | A problem may arise, however, if the concept of "complementarity" is used in the context of a "relativist" structure of rationality. |
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http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1997/PSCF12-97Shults.html
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| | Rationality Religious Unbelief |
| | Conversely, insulating Reformed epistemology from this charge would seem to require that there are circumstances in which religious unbelief can be PF-rational, even if theism is true. | | | A belief is internally rational just if it is the appropriate doxastic response to what is given to a person by way of her previous beliefs and current experience. | | | Warrant appears to require both internal and external rationality. |
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http://www.homestead.com/philofreligion/files/RRU.html
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| | Amazon.com: Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox: Books: Gerd Gigerenzer,Reinhard Selten |
| | This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are. | | | In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. | | | Rational Choice in an Uncertain World : The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making by Reid Hastie |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262072149?v=glance
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| | Rationality: The Foundation of Science. |
| | Before there could be science, there had to be a value for rationality. | | | After science existed, it developed a greater value in society for rationality and exposed the corruptness of irrationality. | | | Rationality and its related values had to precede science, because it created the need to determine truth as an objective set of realities which could be evaluated and improved through evidence. |
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http://nov55.com/rnl.html
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| | Bounded Rationality |
| | Since rational analysis- a variant of which lead to the economic theories plagued with these problems- does not account for these phenomena, it cannot be taken as a panacea paradigm for analysis. | | | In fact, the range of rational goals can lead to such variant behavior that assumptions about the goals cannot be made with confidence. | | | While rational analysis can yield some information about cognition such as that a solution can be found, the particular solution found by particular subjects cannot necessarily be found. |
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http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/cogarch0/common/theory/boundrat.html
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| | Why is it Reasonable to be Rational |
| | A paramecium or amoeba is as miraculous on a small scale as a human being, in their ability to transform simple substances into complex proteins and enzymes, their ability to reproduce and so pass on the knowledge of how to use the raw stuff of the world to maintain coherency. | | | A computer program is a purely rational exercise, akin to writing a proof in mathematics (when I worked as a computer science lecturer in the University of London, first-year students were taught to prove their programs correct by using standard mathematical proof techniques). | | | The Turing Principle guarantees that such a text can be created. |
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http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/essays/reason.htm
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| | SAGE Publications - Rationality and Society |
| | Work based on the theory of rational choice is one of the most dynamic in the social sciences, and developments in rational choice have generated extensive controversy. | | | Rationality and Society provides an interdisciplinary forum in which theoretic developments, empirical research, and policy analyses that are relevant to the rational action paradigm can be shared. | | | Rationality and Society contains pure theory, as well as qualitative and quantitative research, and policy analysis. |
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http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=105755
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| | SSRN-Neuroeconomics and Rationality by Terrence Chorvat, Kevin McCabe |
| | The assumption of rationality is both one of the most important and most controversial assumptions of modern economics. | | | The article explores the meaning of rationality, with a discussion of the distinction between traditional constructivist rationality and more ecological concepts of rationality. | | | Chorvat, Terrence R. and McCabe, Kevin, "Neuroeconomics and Rationality". |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=748264
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| | Nomos and Physis - History for Kids! |
| | The Greeks called these two forces "nomos", meaning law and order and rationalism, and "physis" (FU-sis), meaning nature (our word physics comes from this: physics is the study of nature). | | | Chaos is what there was before there were gods; the gods came to bring order to the world, and the gods like order and hate chaos. | | | The Greeks often thought of the world as being a fight, or an agon, between the two forces of rationalism and chaos, or between law and nature. |
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http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/philosophy/rationality.htm
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| | EPISTEME: Journal of Social Epistemology |
| | The theme of the conference is "rationality" and a special issue of EPISTEME, containing a selection of the conference papers, will be released in conjunction with the conference. | | | Miriam Solomon (Temple) will be the Guest Editor of the journal issue and Hilary Kornblith (Massachusetts, Amherst) will host the conference. |
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http://www.episteme.us.com/conference.htm
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| | Publications |
| | Common Sense, Reasoning, and Rationality (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 2002. | | | Richard Samuels and Stephen Stich, Rationality and Psychology, in Alfred Mele and Piers Rawling, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Rationality. | | | Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich and Michael Bishop, Ending the Rationality Wars: How to Make Disputes About Human Rationality Disappear, in Renée Elio, ed., |
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http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~stich/Publications/publications2.htm
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