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28. Sept. 2021 · To understand what rationality is, why it seems scarce, and why it matters, we must begin with the ground truths of rationality itself: the ways an intelligent agent ought to reason, given its goals and the world in which it lives. These "normative" models come from logic, philosophy, mathematics, and artificial intelligence, and they are our best understanding of the "correct" solution to a ...
Abstract. A concept that can be expressed by the term ‘rationality’ plays a central role in both epistemology and ethics—especially in formal epistemology and decision theory. It is argued here that when the term is used in this way, it expresses the concept of a kind of virtue, that has the central features that are ascribed to virtues ...
rationality is commonly identified with axioms and rules, such as consistency, which are defined without reference to context, but are imposed in all contexts / focus on the social context of rational behavior / [the author's] thesis is that traditional axioms and rules are incomplete as behavioral norms in the sense that their normative validity depends on the social context of the behavior ...
A staggering accumulation of chemical, heavy metal, biological, and nuclear wastes is found in every region, no matter how remote, and leads to a plague of environmentally caused diseases—most obviously the dramatic increase in cancer, immune-system problems, and birth defects.
22. Okt. 2022 · Abstract. In his latest book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Matters, Why It Seems Scarce, Steven Pinker brings attention to how we might strengthen our reasoning powers, as well as be more ...
Social rationality is a specific form of ecological rationality, one in which the environment consists of other humans. The program of social rationality explains human judgment and decision making in terms of the structure of social environments. This chapter illustrates how behaviors that look irrational from an individualistic point of view ...
31. Jan. 2022 · Rationality, as Pinker understands it, is the capacity to reason; and to reason is to move from considerations adduced to a conclusion of one sort or another, that is, to infer. There are two species of reasoning: reasoning to belief and reasoning to action. Call these Theoretical Reasoning and Practical Reasoning.
