A Review of Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake Environment and Our Health. By Michael A. Livermore Richard L. Revesz.

Rational analysis (Anderson 1990, 1991a) is an empirical program of attempting to explain why the cognitive system is adaptive, with respect to its goals and the structure of its environment. We argue that rational analysis has two important implications for philosophical debate concerning rationality. First, rational analysis provides a model for the relationship between formal principles of r...

The paper considers the problem of modern specificity value-rational grounds dispositions actors physical-educational space regional universities. empirical basis work results from sociological research conducted in 2019-2020 by questionnaire survey subjects universities Belgorod, Kursk, and Lipetsk regions (the Central Black Earth Russia, which have close characteristics). It is argued that de...

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. ...

in this article, after reviewing the difference between fundamentalist and anti-fundamentalist philosophy, the features of the rationality will be explained from the perspective of five anti-fundamentalist philosophers (habermas, richard rorty, macintyre, michel foucault and hayek). the common point stated by all these philosophers is that they all criticize metaphysics and doubt about the basi...

The notion of information has so far been quantified mostly in statistical terms, giving rise to Shannon’s information theory and the principles of digital data transmission. Modern systems involving complex, intelligent, and autonomous agents call for a new look at the measures of information, where context, semantics, structures, and rationality are of paramount importance, especially for app...