Rationality and decision making : from normative rules to heuristics / edited by Marek Hetmanski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hetmański, Marek, editor.

Series:

Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; Volume 111.

Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, 0303-8157 ; Volume 111

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reasoning.

Practical reason.

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill Rodopi, 2018.

Summary:

Rationality and Decision Making: From Normative Rules to Heuristics offers a broad overview of both classic and very recent discussions concerning rationality and strategies of individual and group decision making. They are considered from a methodological, ethical, sociological, historical, cultural as well as an evolutionary perspective. Decision making, both rational and irrational, is treated in its complexity as an algorithmic, heuristic and intuitive process. The volume analyzes the theoretical and practical aspects of decision making in individual intentional endeavors and group or institutionalized undertakings. The analyses are mostly theoretical but they also appeal to empirical studies, proposed by philosophers and cognitive scientists who have studied logical, cognitive, biological, social and evolutionary aspects of human rationality. Contributors include María José Frápolli, Marek Hetmański, Jan F. Jacko, Artur Koterski, Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik, Sofia Miguens, Ángeles J. Perona, Manueal de Pinedo, João Alberto Pinto, Krzysztof Polit, Marcin Rządeczka, Rui Sampaio da Silva, Joanna Sokołowska, Barbara Trybulec, Marcin Trybulec, Neftalí Villanueva, Monika Walczak, Jan Winkowski, Anna Wójtowicz, Jesús Zamora-Bonilla, and António Zilhão.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Minimal Expressivism and the Meaning of Practical Rationality / María José Frápolli and Neftalí Villanueva

Group Decision Making as Rational Undertaking: Rationality Attributed or Described? / Marek Hetmański

It Takes Effort to be (Collectively) Rational: Group as a Reasoning Agent / Barbara Trybulec

Seeing What a “Science of Rationality” Founders on (with a Little Help from Donald Davidson) / Sofia Miguens and João Alberto Pinto

Soft Rationality and Reticulated Universality. Reflecting on the Debate between R. Rorty and H. Putnam / Ángeles J. Perona

From Volleying to Distributed Embodied Rationality / Manuel de Pinedo

Psychology and the Norms of Rationality / Rui Sampaio da Silva

Inferentialism, Rationality, and Value-driven Epistemology / Jesús Zamora-Bonilla

Rational Decisions and Wise Decisions: Two Names for the Same Thing? / Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik

The Means-End Rationality and Constitutive Elements of Action / Monika Walczak

Moral Conditions for Methodologically Rational Decisions / Jan Franciszek Jacko

Cognition and Rationality: Writing Straight with Crooked Lines? / António Zilhão

When being Right is Not Good Enough: How Systematic Cognitive Biases Affect Decision Making Strategies / Marcin Rządeczka

Heuristics: Daniel Kahneman vs Gerd Gigerenzer / Anna Wójtowicz and Jan Winkowski

Rationality and Psychological Accuracy of Risky Choice Models Based on Option- vs. Dimension-wise Evaluation / Joanna Sokołowska

Rationality in the Material World / Marcin Trybulec

Neurath’s Decisionism and the Earliest Reviews of Logical Empiricism / Artur Koterski

From Pure Reason to Vital Reason: A Few Remarks on Ratiovitalism by José Ortega y Gasset / Krzysztof Polit.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-35947-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004359475 DOI