Communicative versus Strategic Rationality: Habermas Theory of Communicative Action and the Social Brain
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Communicative versus Strategic Rationality: Habermas Theory of Communicative Action and the Social Brain
In the philosophical theory of communicative action, rationality refers to interpersonal communication rather than to a knowing subject. Thus, a social view of rationality is suggested. The theory differentiates between two kinds of rationality, the emancipative communicative and the strategic or instrumental reasoning. Using experimental designs in an fMRI setting, recent studies explored simi...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065111