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25 paź 2024 · Rationalism, in Western philosophy, the view that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge. Holding that reality itself has an inherently logical structure, rationalists assert that a class of truths exists that the intellect can grasp directly.
Psychological Rationalism questions the grounds for positing an extensive disparity between homo sapiens and homo philosophicus. It argues instea.
Rationalism is a philosophical belief that places reason and logical thinking at the core of acquiring knowledge and understanding the world. It emphasizes the use of rationality and deductive reasoning to form reliable beliefs and make informed decisions.
25 lip 2017 · Rational choice is the standard model of individual behavior in economics—and it is this equilibrium style of explanation that is under scrutiny in the literatures of judgment and decision making (e.g., Kahneman & Tversky, 1984) and behavioral economics (e.g., Camerer, Loewenstein, & Rabin, 2011).
This volume offers the first integrated overview of the state of the art in the psychology and philosophy of rationality. Written by leading experts from both disciplines, The Handbook of Rationality covers the main normative and descriptive theories of rationality—how people ought to think, how they actually think, and why we often deviate ...
This article explores the debate over the extent to which ordinary human reasoning and decision making is rational. It starts by detailing some key experimental findings from the heuristics and biases tradition and describes a range of pessimistic claims about the rationality of ordinary people that these and related findings are sometimes ...
Abstract. The philosophers René Descartes (1596–1650), Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715), Benedict Spinoza (1632–77), and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) are grouped together as rationalists because they held that human beings possess a faculty of reason that produces knowledge independently of the senses. In this regard, they ...
