Rationality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In philosophy, rationality and reason are the key methods used to analyze the data gathered through systematically gathered observations. In economics, sociology, and political science, a decision or ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationality
Rational choice theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rational choice theory , also known as rational action theory , is a framework for understanding and often formally modeling social and economic behavior. It is the dominant theoretical paradigm in...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory
A pioneering figure in establishing rational choice theory in sociology was George Homans (1961), who set out a basic framework of exchange theory, which he grounded in assumptions drawn from behaviourist psychology. ... Rationality and Social Exchange...
privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~scottj/socscot7.htm
the theory of critical thinking...depends fundamentally on the theory of rationality. Theorists of critical thinking must perforce turn to the development of the theory of rationality, for it is that latter theory which undergirds the former one.1...
www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/94_docs/MCCARTHY.HTM
This is a fairly major weakness in this attempt to define rationality in purely objective terms. You cannot describe rational thinking and forget that the criteria are themselves a matter of value judgement, such as the judgements made when setting goals.
www.islamic.org.uk/I4WM/howcan.htm
I show that Lakatos' rejection of the incommensurability thesis and dismissal of actual history are motivated by the belief that neither are compatible with the rationality of theory-change.
www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Scie/ScieMine.htm
Welcome to the Center for the Study of Rationality ... 19/10/09 - 09:00:00The Second Israeli-Turkish Murat Sertel Memorial Conference on Economic Theory...
www.ratio.huji.ac.il/
Essays in the Theory of Rationality ... As this collection testifies, current work in the theory of rationality is subject to very diverse influences ranging from experimental and theoretical psychology, through philosophy of logic and language, to metaethics and the theory of practical reasoning.
www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199256839
Jose Luis Bermúdez explores decision theory as a theory of rationality. Decision theory is the mathematical theory of choice and for many social scientists it makes the concept of rationality mathematically tractable and scientifically legitimate.
www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Pragm... www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Pragmatism/?view=usa&ci=9780199548026
In this paper, one aspect of Carnap's philosophy is examined, namely the relations of Carnap's various views and the rationality of theory acceptance in science. Irzik, Friedman and others have shown already that the so called “standard account” – presenting Carnap as an “arch rationalist”- is over-simplified.
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002664/