Formal epistemologists often claim that our credences should be representable by a probability function. Complete probabilistic coherence, however, is only possible for ideal agents, raising the question of how this requirement relates to everyday judgments concerning rationality. One answer being rational contextual matter, standards rationality change along with situation. Just like who count...

a r t i c l e i n f o Observing human behavior in laboratories reveals time and again the undeniable influence of social components, even in the isolation of carefully designed experiments. Clearly, social and cultural constructs shape human cog-nition. The study of ecological rationality recognizes the importance of specifying these and other characteristics of the environment as a basis of co...

one of the subjects which have long been obsessing the minds and spirits of deep-thinking believers is the relationship between religion in all aspects and scopes we can consider for it and the model of reason and rationality. the scope of religious studies is full of various and ever-emerging questions in this regard. there are diverse approaches to the relation between these two. adopting eac...

Werner Callebaut Faculty of Sciences, Hasselt University, Belgium & Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Altenberg, Austria [email protected] Abstract Simon’s bounded rationality (BR), the first scientific research program (as opposed to a purely philosophical one) to seriously take the cognitive limitations of decision makers into account, has often been confla...

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The paper argues that the standard decision theoretic account of strategies and their rationality or optimality is much too narrow, that strategies should rather condition future action to future decision situations, that practical deliberation must therefore essentially rely on a relation of superiority and inferiority between possible future decision situations, that all this allows to substa...