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16. Dez. 2017 · In the past, most philosophers assumed that the central notion of rationality is a normative or evaluative concept: to think rationally is to think properly or well—in other words, to think as one should think. Rational thinking is in a sense good thinking, while irrational thinking is bad.
24. Jan. 2024 · Why does rationality matter? Epistemic rationality is about systematically improving our ability to form accurate beliefs, while instrumental rationality is about strategically achieving goals. If you aspire to have a tangible effect on the world — whether for your own benefit, or that of your loved ones, community, or society at ...
His 2023 book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, delves into the enigmatic nature of human progress, examining how we have achieved so many impressive scientific...
According to reason-responsiveness accounts, to be rational is to be responsive to reasons. For example, dark clouds are a reason for taking an umbrella, which is why it is rational for an agent to do so in response. An important rival to this approach are coherence-based accounts, which define rationality as internal coherence among ...
7. Mai 2024 · Rationality is not merely an objective science but is a normative project. It seeks to make changes in people and society. But it has undergone steady abuse over the millennia, with reviling detractors and seemingly constant misunderstandings.
Rationality is the use of knowledge to attain goals, according to Steven Pinker. In this article written for Encyclopædia Britannica, Pinker explains why it’s important to understand how humans reason and how that can help us to be optimistic about the future of rationality.
7. Aug. 2018 · On Wedgwood’s view, rationality is a matter of coherence, in a broad sense that includes not only relations between beliefs or credences, but also between other sorts of mental states or mental events, e.g., between beliefs and sensory experiences. Rationality is a value.
