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Preferences, Proxies, and Rationality
This paper uses the idea of a proxy, which figures in discussions of bounded rationality, to construct an argument for a revisionary conclusion about...
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[Rationality vs. Authority] Versus [Rationality + Authority]
The list of precepts for rationality runs up against Chap. 6 ’s paradox that is nonetheless central to the...
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The Rationality Project Across the Millennia
Rationality has been philosophers’ concern stretching back to ancient times. But just what is rationality? In trying to answer this question,...
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Reliabilist epistemology meets bounded rationality
Epistemic reliabilism holds that a belief is justified if and only if it is produced by a reliable or truth-conducive process. I argue that...
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Transformative Rationality and the Problem of ‘Creeping Rationalism’
According to ‘transformative’ theories of rationality, human rational mental capacities cannot be completely explained using the theories and...
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A Puzzle About the Unity and Normativity of Structural Rationality
Alex Worsnip argues that structural rationality is a unified phenomenon, given the constitutive facts about the natures of our mental states. He also...
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Potential rationality in collective decision-making
This study investigates Suzumura consistency as a condition for the rationality of social preferences. A preference is said to be Suzumura-consistent...
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Epictetusian rationality
According to Epictetus, mental freedom and happiness can be achieved by distinguishing between, on the one hand, things that are upon our control...
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Why Rationality? The Growth and Normativity of Rationality
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...
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Agent-centered epistemic rationality
It is a plausible and compelling theoretical assumption that epistemic rationality is just a matter of having doxastic attitudes that are the...
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Approximate rationality and ideal rationality
According to approximate Bayesianism, Bayesian norms are ideal norms worthy of approximation for non-ideal agents. This paper discusses one potential...
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How can embodied cognition naturalize bounded rationality?
The paper discusses how research on embodied cognition in cognitive science can contribute to the naturalization of rationality. The investigation...
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Rationality Personal and Social
Being rational in complete social isolation seems veritably useless. One may remain credible religious if stuck for life on an otherwise uninhabited...
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Representationalism and rationality: why mental representation is real
This paper presents an argument for the realism about mechanisms, contents, and vehicles of mental representation at both the personal and...
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The information inelasticity of habits: Kahneman’s bounded rationality or Simon’s procedural rationality?
Why would decision makers (DMs) adopt heuristics, priors, or in short “habits” that prevent them from optimally using pertinent information—even when...
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From zero-intelligence to Bayesian learning: the effect of rationality on market efficiency
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between individual rationality and price informative efficiency studying a prediction market model...
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Justification as a dimension of rationality
How are justified belief and rational belief related? Some philosophers think that justified belief and rational belief come to the same thing....
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Structural Rationality
John Rawls, who originally presented his theory of justice as an application of the rational choice model, distinguished reason from rationality in...
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Defending Pure Moral Deference: an Argument from Rationality
Pessimists about moral deference argue that there is something special about moral beliefs which make it impermissible for agents to defer on moral...