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Predictably Rational?

Author : Richard B. McKenzie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642015867
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Predictably Rational? written by Richard B. McKenzie and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainstream economists everywhere exhibit an "irrational passion for dispassionate rationality." Behavioral economists, and long-time critic of mainstream economics suggests that people in mainstrean economic models "can think like Albert Einstein, store as much memory as IBM’s Big Blue, and exercise the will power of Mahatma Gandhi," suggesting that such a view of real world modern homo sapiens is simply wrongheaded. Indeed, Thaler and other behavioral economists and psychology have documented a variety of ways in which real-world people fall far short of mainstream economists' idealized economic actor, perfectly rational homo economicus. Behavioral economist Daniel Ariely has concluded that real-world people not only exhibit an array of decision-making frailties and biases, they are "predictably irrational," a position now shared by so many behavioral economists, psychologists, sociologists, and evolutionary biologists that a defense of the core rationality premise of modedrn economics is demanded.

The Irrelevance of Rationality

Author : Steve J. Shone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Irrelevance of Rationality written by Steve J. Shone and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics

Author : Jonathan Pugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198858582
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics written by Jonathan Pugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often treated as an uncontroversial claim in this sphere. Yet, there is also considerable disagreement about how we should cash out the relationship between rationality and autonomy. In particular, it is unclear whether a rationalist view of autonomy can be compatible with legal judgments that enshrine a patient's right to refuse medical treatment, regardless of whether ". . . the reasons for making the choice are rational, irrational, unknown or even non-existent". In this book, I bring recent philosophical work on the nature of rationality to bear on the question of how we should understand autonomy in contemporary bioethics. In doing so, I develop a new framework for thinking about the concept, one that is grounded in an understanding of the different roles that rational beliefs and rational desires have to play in personal autonomy. Furthermore, the account outlined here allows for a deeper understanding of different form of controlling influence, and the relationship between our freedom to act, and our capacity to decide autonomously. I contrast my rationalist with other prominent accounts of autonomy in bioethics, and outline the revisionary implications it has for various practical questions in bioethics in which autonomy is a salient concern, including questions about the nature of informed consent and decision-making capacity.

Rationality

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241380308
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Rationality written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Punchy, funny and invigorating ... Pinker is the high priest of rationalism' Sunday Times 'If you've ever considered taking drugs to make yourself smarter, read Rationality instead. It's cheaper, more entertaining, and more effective' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing? In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply an irrational species - cavemen out of time fatally cursed with biases, fallacies and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives and set the benchmarks for rationality itself. Instead, he explains, we think in ways that suit the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we have built up over millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, causal inference, and decision-making under uncertainty. These tools are not a standard part of our educational curricula, and have never been presented clearly and entertainingly in a single book - until now. Rationality matters. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress. Brimming with insight and humour, Rationality will enlighten, inspire and empower. 'A terrific book, much-needed for our time' Peter Singer

Objectivism and the Corruption of Rationality

Author : Scott Ryan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595267335
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Objectivism and the Corruption of Rationality written by Scott Ryan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-01-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayn Rand presented Objectivism as a philosophy of reason. But is it? That is the question Scott Ryan seeks to answer in this careful examination of the Objectivist epistemology and its alleged sufficiency as the philosophical foundation of a free and prosperous commonwealth. Sorting painstakingly through Rand's writings on the subject, Mr. Ryan concludes that the epistemology of Objectivism is incoherent and debases both the concept and the practice of rationality.

Cult of the Irrelevant

Author : Michael Desch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069122899X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Cult of the Irrelevant written by Michael Desch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy To mobilize America’s intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post–9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that “we must again embrace eggheads and ideas.” But the gap between national security policymakers and international relations scholars has become a chasm. In Cult of the Irrelevant, Michael Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Beltway and the Ivory Tower from World War I to the present day. Recounting key Golden Age academic strategists such as Thomas Schelling and Walt Rostow, Desch’s narrative shows that social science research became most oriented toward practical problem-solving during times of war and that scholars returned to less relevant work during peacetime. Social science disciplines like political science rewarded work that was methodologically sophisticated over scholarship that engaged with the messy realities of national security policy, and academic culture increasingly turned away from the job of solving real-world problems. In the name of scientific objectivity, academics today frequently engage only in basic research that they hope will somehow trickle down to policymakers. Drawing on the lessons of this history as well as a unique survey of current and former national security policymakers, Desch offers concrete recommendations for scholars who want to shape government work. The result is a rich intellectual history and an essential wake-up call to a field that has lost its way.

War in Economic Theories over Time

Author : Renata Allio
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030396177
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book War in Economic Theories over Time written by Renata Allio and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war. It retraces debates on war from the formation of European states, the rise of Mercantilism, to Colonialism, Imperialism, the World Wars and the Cold War. Allio shows different economic perspectives from which it is possible to study war as a tool to achieve economic ends: causes, consequences, costs, funding methods, and effects on the economic status of the state and on the well-being of citizens. Examining interpretations from Smith, Hobson, Keynes, Kalecki, Stiglitz and many more, this important volume addresses the economic implications of war from the perspectives of many who bore the costs of wars in reality.

Predictably Irrational

Author : Dan Ariely
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006135323X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Predictably Irrational written by Dan Ariely and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent, lively, humorous, and thoroughly engaging, "The Predictably Irrational" explains why people often make bad decisions and what can be done about it.

The Irrelevant Middleman

Author : Sugam Keshri
Publisher : Sugam Keshri
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irrelevant Middleman written by Sugam Keshri and published by Sugam Keshri. This book was released on 2023-06-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating book, the author challenges the existence of God, weaving together scientific concepts, philosophical ideas, and critical reasoning. They dismantle traditional arguments posed for the existence and expose the inherent irrelevance of a divine intermediary. This book attempts to delve into human nature, psychology, philosophy. "The Irrelevant Middleman" delves beyond religious dogma, critically examining Hinduism, its principles, philosophies, its central ideologies and Hindutva, shedding light on their societal impact while maintaining a balanced perspective. The book encourages readers to question the influence of organized religion and embrace a more enlightened worldview. It discusses Indian atheism and atheism in general. It integrates scientific theories like evolution or the Big Bang with profound philosophical concepts, like Morality, Bhakti and Duty. It invites readers to challenge preconceived notions, offering a path towards a more rational and meaningful existence, where skepticism and critical thinking prevail, and the search for truth and meaning takes center stage. Also available on Amazon(Ebook+Paperback) : https://amzn.eu/d/ejDU05F

Natural Law and Practical Rationality

Author : Mark C. Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521802291
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Natural Law and Practical Rationality written by Mark C. Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defense of a contemporary natural law theory of practical rationality.

Apropos of Something

Author : Elisa Tamarkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645326X
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Apropos of Something written by Elisa Tamarkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the idea of “relevance” since the nineteenth century in art, criticism, philosophy, logic, and social thought. Before 1800 nothing was irrelevant. So argues Elisa Tamarkin’s sweeping meditation on a key shift in consciousness: the arrival of relevance as the means to grasp how something that was once disregarded, unvalued, or lost to us becomes interesting and important. When so much makes claims to our attention every day, how do we decide what is most valuable right now? Relevance, Tamarkin shows, was an Anglo-American concept, derived from a word meaning “to raise or to lift up again,” and also “to give relief.” It engaged major intellectual figures, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and pragmatists and philosophers—William James, Alain Locke, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead—as well as a range of critics, phenomenologists, linguists, and sociologists. Relevance is a struggle for recognition, especially in the worlds of literature, art, and criticism. Poems and paintings in the nineteenth century could now be seen as pragmatic works that make relevance and make interest—that reveal versions of events that feel apropos of our lives the moment we turn to them. Vividly illustrated with paintings by Winslow Homer, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and others, Apropos of Something is a searching philosophical and poetic study of relevance—a concept calling for shifts in both attention and perceptions of importance with enormous social stakes. It remains an invitation for the humanities and for all of us who feel tasked every day with finding the point.

The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon

Author : Jon Mandle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316193985
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon written by Jon Mandle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars. From 'basic structure' to 'burdened society', from 'Sidgwick' to 'strains of commitment', and from 'Nash point' to 'natural duties', the volume covers the entirety of Rawls' central ideas and terminology, with illuminating detail and careful cross-referencing. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of Rawls, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, ethics, political science, sociology, international relations and law.

Fuzzy Rationality

Author : Kofi Kissi Dompere
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540880836
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Fuzzy Rationality written by Kofi Kissi Dompere and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy involves a criticism of scientific knowledge, not from a point of view ultimately different from that of science, but from a point of view less concerned with details and more concerned with the h- mony of the body of special sciences. Here as elsewhere, while the older logic shut out possibilities and imprisoned imagination within the walls of the familiar, the newer logic shows rather what may happen, and refuses to decide as to what must happen. Bertrand Russell At any particular stage in the development of humanity knowledge comes up against limits set by the necessarily limited character of the experience available and the existing means of obtaining knowledge. But humanity advances by overcoming such limits. New experience throws down the limits of old experience; new techniques, new means of obtaining knowledge throw down the limits of old techniques and old means of obtaining knowledge. New limits then once again appear. But there is no more reason to suppose these new limits absolute and final than there was to suppose the old ones absolute and final.

The Rational Choice Controversy

Author : Jeffrey Friedman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300068214
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book The Rational Choice Controversy written by Jeffrey Friedman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory, a book written by Donald Green and Ian Shapiro and published in 1994, excited much controversy among political scientists and promoted a dialogue among them that was printed in a double issue of the journal Critical Review in 1995. This new book reproduces thirteen essays from the journal written by senior scholars in the field, along with an introduction by the editor of the journal, Jeffrey Friedman, and a rejoinder to the essays by Green and Shapiro. The scholars--who include John Ferejohn, Morris P. Fiorina, Stanley Kelley, Jr., Robert E. Lane, Peter C. Ordeshook, Norman Schofield, and Kenneth A. Shepsle--criticize, agree with, or build on the issues raised by Green and Shapiro s critique. Together the essays provide an interesting and accessible way of focusing on competing approaches to the study of politics and the social sciences.

Contributions to Mathematical Psychology, Psychometrics, and Methodology

Author : Gerhard H. Fischer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387941691
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Contributions to Mathematical Psychology, Psychometrics, and Methodology written by Gerhard H. Fischer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-12-17 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions to Mathematical Psychology, Psycho§ metrics and Methodology presents the most esteemed research findings of the 22nd European Mathematical Psychology Group meeting in Vienna, Austria, September 1991. The selection of work appearing in this volume contains not only contributions to mathematical psychology in the narrow sense, but also work in psychometrics and methodology, with the common element of all contributions being their attempt to deal with scientific problems in psychology with rigorous mathematics reasoning. The book contains 28 chapters divided into five parts: Perception, Learning, and Cognition; Choice and Reaction Time; Social Systems; Measurement and Psychometrics; and Methodology. It is of interest to all mathematical psychologists, educational psychologists, and graduate students in these areas.

Philosophy and Psychology Pamphlets

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Psychology Pamphlets written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Relevance and Irrelevance

Author : Jan Strassheim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110470489
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Relevance and Irrelevance written by Jan Strassheim and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relevance drives our actions and channels our attention; it shapes how we make sense of the world and communicate with each other. Irrelevance spreads a twilight which blurs the line between information we do not want to access and information we cannot access. In disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, the information sciences and linguistics, “relevance” has been proposed as a key concept. This book is the first to bring together the often unrelated traditions. Researchers from different fields discuss relevance and relate it to the challenges of “irrelevance”, which have so far been neglected despite their significance for our chances of making well-informed decisions and understanding others. The contributions focus on theoretical and conceptual questions, on specific factors and fields, and on practical and political implications of relevance and irrelevance as forces which are even stronger when they remain in the background.