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  2. Jun 29, 2024 · Who Is Rational—and How Irrational Are We? Research shows that most people follow rules of thumb half of the time or more. Posted June 29, 2024 | Reviewed by Devon Frye. Key points. We often make...

    • The Habit of Being Rational
    • Three Forms of Rationality
    • Being Rational in An Argument Versus Being Reasonable
    • The Cage of Rationality

    In this short reflection, I will play the devil’s advocate in considering the shadows of rationality. In philosophy, rationality seems to be a self-evident truth with which we come in contact while exploring a certain topic or observing a given aspect of reality. This means that per se rationality is a procedural activity and not necessarily a qual...

    James—another pragmatist philosopher—defines at least three forms of rationality: absolutist, structural, and calculative. Believing that it is possible to achieve an absolutely rational decision or believing that there is a rational structure that underlies the universe is, according to James, irrational and a counterproductive simplification of f...

    Hence, being rational in an argument does not mean that you need to be good at articulating your thoughts or able to make more sense than others. If things were that simple, people who do not master the language or have problems expressing their ideas would be always wrong and irrational. Being rational means being reasonable, that is, being able t...

    In his beautiful book, Reason and Existenz, the existential philosopher and psychiatrist Karl Jaspers warns us about the risks of rationality and its impulsive nature. Rationality often points to a heavily ethically charged way of making sense of the world that puts us in front of dichotomies that do not help our spirit. To give an example, a woman...

  3. Sep 23, 2021 · These developments in the study of rationality have added much-needed nuance to understanding our mental strengths and shortcomings, and they have provided insights into design issues.

  4. Jul 25, 2017 · The cognitive sciences, psychology, and economics are intimately linked in their interest in rationality. Foundational to most conceptions of rationality, judgment, and reasoning is a particular view of perception.

    • Nick Chater, Teppo Felin, David C. Funder, Gerd Gigerenzer, Jan J. Koenderink, Joachim I. I. Krueger...
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  5. To the extent that a person's judgments and decisions accord with the principles of the Standard Picture, they are rational, and to the extent that they violate such principles, they fail to be rational.

  6. Sep 13, 2020 · I’ll make a start by introducing you to what I have called "the five enemies of rational thought": 1. Formal fallacy. A fallacy is some kind of defect in an argument. A formal fallacy is an...

  7. 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 can turn out to be well adapted to a specific social environment.

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