What is economic rationality?

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What is rationality?

I'm particularly interested in different definitions from different fields and philosophies. Would you please preface your answer with the perspective from which you're answering? For example, "In psychology rationality means..." or "Foucault defines rationality as..." etc

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I come from a behavioral economics background.  "Rational" is one of those words that can...

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What is the "principle of dissolvent rationality"?

What does the "principle of dissolvent rationality" mean in Chapter 1 of The Dialectic of Enlightenment? The passage reads as follows:Whatever myths the resistance [mythologies, dogmas, etc.] may appeal to, by virtue of the very fact that they...

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melangell: "I agree with your analysis. I think it is descrbing enlightenment as a sort of metaconscious...

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Krishtians, what are your thoughts on More Rationality as a probable abridged Krishtian Morality Concept .. ?

Krishtians, what are your thoughts on More Rationality as a probable Krishtian Morality Concept .. ??.. What are your thoughts .. ?? .. may also refer .. http://arjunkrishna963.sulekha.com/blog/… .. All are NGDCs though ..

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Well I believe in a morality of gratitude and not of fear, how about you? Any religion that believes...

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What exists, besides rationality?

Even with bizarre things such as quantum mechanics, I'm stuck with this Cartesian idea that the universe is controlled by logic, rationality, and is basically mathematics. Who developed further than this?

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Your idea of a world governed by mathematical rules is widely shared within the scientific community...

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What are some basic drawings I could do to represent rationality/irrationality?

I'm doing a project for my English class, and I need an image I could draw (I have decent drawing abilities) that would represent both rationality and irrationality.

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Umm, the only image that emerges immediately, is one of a person [face only is fine] whose one half...

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What is the rationality behind reproduction in context of humans?

As an individual why does one think of giving birth, is it just for sustaining human life? I mean what is the motive behind survival? Because seriously why a person should even give a damn what happens after he/she dies?

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It is the easiest way of creating something that lives on when one is dead, the easiest way of leaving...

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Humans are capable of using rationality and good judgement. What other animals species have these skills?

I know that there are other intelligent animal species can be good thinkers and problem solvers. Humans have rational thinking and I will give you an example. For example, humans have the capability and thinking that overreacting and being very dramatic...

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No, you are applying human emotions to animals. Their thinking doesn't work that way. They have emotions...

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What is Ecological Rationality?

and what are its implications User Experience (User Experience Design) and User Interface Design?

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Ecological Rationality is the concept of aiding the reasoning process by aligning heuristic structure...

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What is a good introduction to bounded rationality?

The leading paradigm in economic theory assumes that economic agents (households, firms) are perfectly rational in making their decisions. Experimental evidence and common sense indicate that this assumption is often too demanding. Alternatively one...

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Ariel Rubinstein has written a book entitled "Modeling Bounded Rationality", and his publisher...

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Should rationality be left unguided?

Should morality guide our rationality? Or should rationality be independent of morality? However, if morality shall guide our rationality, which morality must we use? I assume that morality is subjective.

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Rationality is it's own guide. As far as any overlap with morality, I would think that it does to an...

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