The mystery of rationality : mind, beliefs and the social sciences /: mind, beliefs and the social sciences. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gérald Bronner, Francesco Di Iorio, editor.
• Editors: Bronner, Gérald; Iorio, Francesco Di
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Rationality as an Enigmatic Concept; Abstract; References; 2 Our Agenda and Its Rationality; Abstract; 3 Intentional, Unintentional and Sub-intentional Aspects of Social Mechanisms and Rationality: The Example of Commitments in Political Life; Abstract; Introduction; Generative Mechanisms, RCT and Good Reasons. Conscious, Unconscious and Sub-conscious Rationality; Intentional Commitments, Rational Choice Theory and "Good Reasons" Sub-intentional "Commitments" and Sub-conscious Good Reasons in Interactive Contexts. Theoretical and Experimental PerspectivesSub-intentional "Commitments" and Sub-conscious Good Reasons in Interactive Contexts. Outline of Historical Case Studies: The Role of "Populism" in the Secession of States and the Process of Decolonization; Conclusion: Analytical Sociology, Goods Reasons and Rhetorical History; References; 4 On the Explanation of Human Action: "Good Reasons", Critical Rationalism and Argumentation Theory; Abstract; Good Reasons and Argumentation Theory "Good Reasons" and Critical DiscussionOn the Complementarity Between Mises' "Praxeology" and Boudon's Cognitive Rationality; The Epistemological Status of Rationality; Boudon's "Good Reasons" and Dray's "Principle of Action"; References; 5 Rationality, Irrationality, Realism and the Good; Abstract; Irrationality and Rationality; Normativity and Realism; Realism and the Good; References; 6 First Generation Behavioral Economists on Rationality, and Its Limits; Abstract; Introduction; The Foundations of Neoclassical Theory; Rationality; Maximization; Efficiency Rationality-Maximization-EfficiencyRationality; The Persistence of the Complete Rationality Assumption; References; 7 Embodied Rationality; Abstract; Introduction; Enactivist Approaches to Embodied Cognition; Embodied Rationality; Enactivist Hermeneutics; Acknowledgements; References; 8 Rational Choice Explained and Defended; Abstract; Introduction; The Axioms of Rational Choice; Choice Under Uncertainty; Bayesian Updating with Radical Uncertainty; State-Dependent Preferences; Networked Minds and Distributed Cognition; Limitations of the Rational Actor Model; The Allais Paradox The Ellsberg ParadoxFailures of Judgment; References; 9 Rationality and Irrationality Revisited or Intellectualism Vindicated or How Stands the Problem of the Rationality of Magic?; Abstract; Acknowledgements; References; 10 Rational Life Plans?; Abstract; Introduction; What Is Involved in the Idea of a "Plan of Life"?; Special Features of Life Plans; Deliberation; Pragmatist Theory of Action; Bounded Life Planning; References; 11 Dynamics of Rationality and Dynamics of Emotions; Abstract; Dynamical Rationality; Emotional Dynamics; Temporal Discount and Anticipating Emotions
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 153.4; Philosophy; Belief and doubt; Rationalism; Cognition -- Social aspects; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; SCIENCE / Cognitive Science; Belief and doubt; Cognition -- Social aspects; Rationalism; Psychology -- Cognitive Psychology; Psychology -- Industrial & Organizational Psychology; Mathematics -- Applied; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Occupational & industrial psychology; Mathematical modelling; Sociology; Philosophy of mind; Consciousness; Applied psychology; Philosophy -- Mind & Body; Philosophy of mind; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319940281; 3319940287
• Related ISBNs: 9783319940267; 3319940260
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 17, 2018).
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