DISCUSSING CONCEPTS OF TERRORIST RATIONALITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY
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Two Concepts of Rationality
RATIONALITY IS ESSENTIALLY connected with norms. In Western philosophy, while there has been much disagreement over what the norms of rationality are, there seems to have been substantial agreement that these norms are narrowly prescriptive; in fact there is a pronounced tendency to see rationality as leaving the agent no scope for choice in matters of thought, belief, inference and behaviour. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Defence and Peace Economics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1024-2694,1476-8267
DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2011.542337