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| | Faith and rationality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Rationalism holds that truth should be determined by reason and factual analysis, rather than faith, dogma or religious teaching. | | | Rationalism makes no statement either way regarding the existence of God or the validity or value of religion, but it rejects any belief based on faith alone. | | | Natural theology holds that faith and rationality are compatible, so that the evidence and reason ultimately lead to belief in the objects of faith. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_and_rationality
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| | Rationality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In some cases, such as relgious belief, the argument may be valid but its soundness cannot be known for the truth of its premises cannot be known. | | | Evidence bears on belief but not on rationality. | | | Sometimes rationality implies having complete knowledge about all the details of a given situation. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationality
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| | Why is it Reasonable to be Rational |
| | Rationality is a specialised use of language that mirrors properties of physical reality. | | | The single greatest factor in the decline of religion and religious authority has been its inability to deal with the consequences of permitting free rational debate. | | | Deutsch presents us with a monist view of a world in which there is no Platonic Intelligible, no metaphysical dual of the real world, no hidden realm of secret knowledge to be wrested from angels by the power of secret names. |
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http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/essays/reason.htm
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| | Rationality and the Lived World By Frederick Marglin |
| | The emergence of a system of knowledge characterized by the disembedding of rationality from ethics, metaphor, body and world in the early 17th century, was necessary, if not sufficient, for the emergence of the industrial revolution some two centuries later. | | | This form of rationality, as discussed above, is socially, religiously, and culturally unsituated; it is disembedded from any lived world. | | | By disembedding itself from the lived world of both the knower and the known, this form of rationality thinks itself free from the body and the world, dispassionate, objective and universally valid. |
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http://www.zmag.org/ScienceWars/lubiano.htm
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| | patrissimo: Circular definition of rationality |
| | Note that rationality is described as "the basis of neoclassical economics". | | | It does not mean that all men are rational all of the time (and Rand obviously didn't believe that). | | | The real bugbear that Mises wanted to slay, is when this plain fact is used as justification for another, supposedly more supremely rational philosophos basileus to make people's decisions on their behalf. |
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http://patrissimo.livejournal.com/61239.html
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| | Rationality Religious Unbelief |
| | The rational thing to do is no longer hold his theistic belief with the same degree of firmness. | | | But if I acquire an internalist rationality defeater for my belief that p and the design plan specifies that I hold my belief that p less firmly, but I continue to hold it with the same degree of firmness, my belief is not externally or PF-rational. | | | Perhaps her defeater is complete and itself undefeated (e.g., she has great enthusiasm for projective theories of religious belief or alternatively her theistic belief is very weak before encountering p and q), then if she is PF-rational she will no longer hold her theistic belief at all. |
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http://www.homestead.com/philofreligion/files/RRU.html
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| | Rationality/Science -- From Z Papers Special Issue |
| | Since "scientific and technological progress were the watchword of socialist and capitalist ideologies," we see that their error and perversity is deep, and we must abandon them, along with any concern for freedom, justice, human rights, democracy, and other "watchwords" of the secular priesthood who have perverted Enlightenment ideals in the interests of the masters. | | | As for the cited properties of X, they do hold of some aspects of human thought and action: elements of organized religion, areas of the humanities and "social sciences" where understanding and insight are thin and it is therefore easier to get away with dogmatism and falsification, perhaps others. | | | What is presented here as a deeper critique of their nature seems to me based on beliefs about the enterprise and its guiding values that have little basis. |
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http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/95-science.html
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| | Human Rational Behavior and Economic Rationality |
| | Not only can the claims that rational choice is the only and best unified model of action can be questioned, but also the very claim that the model is unified, i.e. | | | Rather, non-rational and even irrational unified models do exist or can be built in the same right as their rational equivalents. | | | Hence if unified non-rational models do justice to some relevant aspects of the reality of social action, they are ontologically as legitimate as rational models, charitably assuming that these also do so. |
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http://www.sociology.org/content/vol7.2/02_zafirovski.html
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| | Rationality in Science and Theology |
| | Van Huyssteen, The Shaping of Rationality in Science and Religion, 29. | | | That is, he or she will continue to search for foundations in order to have a ground of certainty. | | | Wentzel Van Huyssteen, The Shaping of Rationality in Science and Religion. |
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http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1997/PSCF12-97Shults.html
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| | Rationality: The Foundation of Science. |
| | Modern Buddhists (responding the the demands of modern scientific standards of thought) claim their purpose is to show evidence for reality through rational analysis. | | | One of the earliest examples is found in Buddhism. | | | Before there could be science, there had to be a value for rationality. |
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http://nov55.com/rnl.html
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| | Point . Design: Feedback on Design as Rationality |
| | Also, something can be vastly coherent, but include false, inappropriate and ingenuine aspects, thereby causing the vast coherence to be invalid (e.g., a religious creation myth) or be questionable in its validity, while unquestionable in its coherence (e.g., _Alice in Wonderland_). | | | It seems to want to simulataneously make use of all validity claims, and not in a way that you can separate out and theorize away. | | | Does the existence of that argumentatively-revealed argument then make it easier for others to understand? |
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http://point.blogs.com/neomodernism/2004/05/the_following_a.html
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| | 20th WCP: Expertise and Rationality |
| | Instead of saying that rationality requires that beliefs be actually checked against expert opinions, one could say that such rational beliefs are those that would stand up to expert consultation. | | | And many a student has walked away from a logic course with the belief that any appeal to authority is an informal fallacy. | | | It would seem that the connection between expertise and rationality is so obvious as to be mundane: when one lacks expertise on a given matter of importance, and there are people who have that expertise and who can be consulted without undue cost, then (ceteris paribus) one should consult such people. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/TKno/TKnoStar.htm
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| | Vol. 8/9: Rationality II&III |
| | That argument claims there is a conceptual connection between intentionality and rationality: intentionality requires rationality. | | | I do so, because I believe that they are not always prised apart sufficiently. | | | The meaning of a sentence is no longer given in terms of (static) truth conditions but as a relation between belief sets, that is, as a kind of information change potential. |
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http://www.protosociology.de/Vol8.htm
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| | Pluralism and Rationality: the limits of tolerance |
| | Anthropology courses he finds interesting for their presenting "alternative lifestyles": coming of age in Samoa he fancies merely a more entertaining variant of coming of age in Scarsdale. | | | But perhaps a plurality, not of values but of contexts might work to reduce conflict: keep religion in the churches and science in the laboratories and there won't be any Monkey Trials. | | | On the other hand, if we could accept it that he were irrational, we would hardly expect to comprehend, say, his actions in terms of his beliefs and values. |
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http://www.newfoundations.com/EGR/RatPlurTol.html
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| | Technorati Tag: rationality |
| | By now you have probably encountered the story about how recent DNA studies seem to be "putting the lie" to some of the stories in the Book of Mormon... | | | Posts tagged Rationality per day for the last 30 days. | | | Why it matters to be rational, and how you ca... |
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http://technorati.com/tag/rationality
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| | Nomos and Physis - History for Kids! |
| | Chaos is what there was before there were gods; the gods came to bring order to the world, and the gods like order and hate chaos. | | | The Greeks often thought of the world as being a fight, or an agon, between the two forces of rationalism and chaos, or between law and nature. | | | The Greeks called these two forces "nomos", meaning law and order and rationalism, and "physis" (FU-sis), meaning nature (our word physics comes from this: physics is the study of nature). |
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http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/philosophy/rationality.htm
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| | SAGE Publications - Rationality and Society |
| | The trend toward ever-greater specialization in many areas of intellectual life has lead to fragmentation that deprives scholars of the ability to communicate even in closely adjoining fields. | | | Rationality & Society focuses on the growing contributions of rational-action based theory, and the questions and controversies surrounding this growth. | | | This often spirited scholarly discourse contributes to the intellectual vitality and further development of rational choice-based theory and research. |
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http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=105755
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| | Skepticism of Rationality |
| | What do we really mean by the word rational? | | | Political and philosophical arguments are full of claims about rationality of postions, all contradicting each other. | | | Usually, "rationality" is a Humpty-Dumpty word, that means whatever the user finds is convenient to club his oponents with. |
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http://world.std.com/~mhuben/skept/rationality.html
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| | 20th WCP: Ressentiment and Rationality |
| | It is the rationality of the agent that makes her worthy of respect, and undergirds the practical imperative. | | | And, as we have seen above, the envious person must also have a sense of self-worth in order to feel that she also deserves to possess what is possessed by the other. | | | The rationality of ressentiment is found to be essential to the phenomenon as a whole and to its constitutive parts. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Anth/AnthMore.htm
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| | Bounded Rationality |
| | rational analysis as misdirected based on the following three arguments: | | | Since rational analysis- a variant of which lead to the economic theories plagued with these problems- does not account for these phenomena, it cannot be taken as a panacea paradigm for analysis. | | | In fact, the range of rational goals can lead to such variant behavior that assumptions about the goals cannot be made with confidence. |
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http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/cogarch0/common/theory/boundrat.html
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| | SSRN-Neuroeconomics and Rationality by Terrence Chorvat, Kevin McCabe |
| | The assumption of rationality is both one of the most important and most controversial assumptions of modern economics. | | | The article explores the meaning of rationality, with a discussion of the distinction between traditional constructivist rationality and more ecological concepts of rationality. | | | The article argues that ecological notions of rationality more accurately describe both human neural mechanisms as well as a wider variety of human behavior than do constructivist notions of rationality. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=748264
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| | EPISTEME: Journal of Social Epistemology |
| | Miriam Solomon (Temple) will be the Guest Editor of the journal issue and Hilary Kornblith (Massachusetts, Amherst) will host the conference. | | | The theme of the conference is "rationality" and a special issue of EPISTEME, containing a selection of the conference papers, will be released in conjunction with the conference. |
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http://www.episteme.us.com/conference.htm
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| | Publications |
| | Common Sense, Reasoning, and Rationality (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 2002. | | | Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich and Michael Bishop, Ending the Rationality Wars: How to Make Disputes About Human Rationality Disappear, in Renée Elio, ed., | | | Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich and Luc Faucher, Reason and Rationality, in I. Niiniluoto, M. Sintonen, and J. Wolenski, eds., |
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http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~stich/Publications/publications2.htm
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