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Showing 1 to 20 of 691 for “"rationality"”.
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Rationality without representation
… attitudes could play a role in our theories of rationality. In Chapter 1 ('Negation, expressivism, and intentionality') I argue that the best explanation for why two mental states are inconsistent need not presuppose that such states are representational-that they have, in the jargon, …
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Epistemic Rationality and Justification
… thesis of this dissertation is that epistemic rationality is different from justification. While justified beliefs must be likely to be true, a belief with low probability can nevertheless be epistemically rational because informativeness is an important factor to consider in assessing the …
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Bounded Rationality in Macroeconomics
… cognitive or attentional constraints, or bounded rationality, can capture these realities and explain deviations of individual behavior from a benchmark of pure payoff maximization. This thesis studies the aggregate implications of such imperfect reasoning and decision making for macroeconomic …
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The persona of rationality
In this dissertation, using Jungian depth psychology, I use the dialectical structure of the human psyche as a foundation to illustrate some problems that develop when an individual identifies her or himself with the requirements of a rational organization. I argue that the unconscious side of the …
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The Rationality of Christian Faith
The sixth chapter provides a summary overview of the essay, comments on faith and the intellectual virtues, and, like the previous three chapters, reflects on limitations before ending with a coda (the fifth). There is an extended bibliography.
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Sympathetic Rationality in Elementary Schools
Sympathetic Rationality in Elementary Schools is a study concerned with cultivating deep learning experiences interlaced with feeling. It recognizes the sensitive relationship between knowing and emotions. The concept was devised by Robert Jerome Starratt in a dissertation entitled, The Individual …
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The burgeoning constitutional requirement of rationality and separation of powers has rationality review gone too far?
… of the 'minimum threshold requirement' of rationality through the seemingly inexhaustible constitutional principle of legality. The question sought to be addressed is whether, in extending this baseline requirement to cover procedural fairness, reason-giving and something akin to …
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The political rationality of American science
Includes bibliographical references,
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The (ir)relevance of truth to rationality
It is possible to act for a reason. We do it all the time. You might have brought her medicine for the reason that she is ill. He might go to the store to get milk. Edmund might skate in the middle of the pond because the ice in the middle of the pond is thin. What must be true of us, and of the …
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Nudging, transparency and rationality: An experimental investigation
This thesis is made up of three Chapters. In the first chapter, “Happy, healthy, wealthy and rational: Are biases harmful?” I conduct a quasi-experimental survey to investigate whether or not five biases and fallacies (present bias, sunk cost fallacy, loss aversion, gambler’s fallacy and impact …
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The Context-Sensitivity of Rationality and Knowledge
My dissertation argues that the beliefs, desires, and preferences that count as rational may change from one deliberative context to another. The argument rests on the premise that rational deliberation requires one to identify all the possibilities that are relevant to a decision problem. How does …
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Distributed learning in games under bounded rationality
In multi-agent systems, bounded rationality arises both from the agents’ cognitive and informational limitations and from the uncertainty of the environments in which they interact. This dissertation considers models, solution concepts, and learning dynamics that explicitly embrace bounded …
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Bounded Rationality in Real Estate Investment Decisions
… solutions. Overall, they can muster bounded rationality only. Real estate investors are as human and biased as investors in other financial assets. Previous work has found that the intransparency of markets, low liquidity and the heterogeneity of assets paired with significant emotional …
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Fields of rationality of cuspidal automorphic representations
… questions related to the growth of fields of rationality of cuspidal automorphic representations in families. Specifically, if F is a family of cuspidal automorphic representations with fixed central character, prescribed behavior at the Archimedean places, and such that the finite component …
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Rationality and the limits of cognitive science
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1992.
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A Hive Mind: Bounded Rationality and Bees
Bees (Anthophila) are experiencing global decline as part of what is being called the Anthropocene extinction. In addition to the drivers of this event, such as climate change, bees are experiencing synergistic challenges from pesticides, poor nutrition, pathogens, and parasites. Bees play a …
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