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A Plea for Broad Rationality

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It is not only important to know how to achieve certain goals. It is also important to know which goals are wise to choose.

A Plea for Broad Rationality Get link Facebook X Pinterest Email Other Apps By Coert Visser - October 31, 2016 In The Rationality Quotient , which I have interviewed Keith Stanovich about recently, there is an interesting bit in which different conceptualizations of rationality are explained. Roughly there are two conceptualizations of rationality, a thin one and a broad one (a distinction which was first made by political scientist Jon Elster, 1983 ). The thin theory of rationality involves two factors of rationality: instrumental rationality and epistemic rationality. Thin versus broad ratio

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