Moral Satisficing: Rethinking Moral Behavior as Bounded Rationality

Generalized Bounded Rationality and Robust Multicommodity Network Design

Often network users are not perfectly rational, especially when they are satisficing—rather than optimizing— decision makers and each individual’s perception of the decision environment reflects personal preferences or perception errors due to lack of information. While the assumption of satisficing drivers has been used in modeling route choice behavior, this research uses a link-based percept...

Morality, Rationality and Impartiality

Morality as somehow involving rationality and impartiality received classic expression in philosophy of Kant who frankly speaks of “rational and impartial spectator” in contemplating the universal law. The overall aim of this paper is to show (1) that the idea of morality implies rationality and this will be reached at in refuting the moral scepticism; but (2) it does not necessarily indicates ...

Artificial Morality.PDF

A central question in the development and design of artificial moral agents is whether the absence of emotions, and the capacity of computer systems to manage large quantities of information and analyze many courses of actions, will make them equal or superior to humans in making moral judgments. The contrasting contention that emotions, a sense of self, embodiment, consciousness, and the abili...

Well-informedness and Rationality: a Philosophical Overview

There is a strong tendency in modern moral philosophy to impose restrictions on the range of desires that are to count as genuinely contributive to the desirer’s welfare. Perhaps the most frequent among such proposals is that only appropriately “informed” or “rational” desires are to count. I shall argue that the philosophical assumptions that underlie such suggestions suffer from the influence...

Kant on the Rationality of Moral Judgment