Cognitive Success: A Consequentialist Account of Rationality in Cognition

A Moderate Consequentialist Account of our Obligations to Future Generations

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

A Bounded Rationality Account of Wishful Thinking

People tend towards wishful thinking, in which they overestimate the probability of favorable outcomes and underestimate the probability of unfavorable outcomes. Many explanations for this phenomenon focus on its irrationality. We explore whether wishful thinking could actually help people make better decisions given that they have limited cognitive resources. We consider a situation in which m...

Epistemology, Rationality, and Cognition

1.1 Setting Aside the Gettier Problem Since Gettier, much of epistemology has focused on analyzing “S knows that P”, but that is not my interest. My general interest is in rational cognition — both in what it is to be rational, and in how rational cognition works. The traditional epistemological question, “How do you know?”, can be taken as addressing part of the more general problem of produci...

A Logical Account of Social Rationality in Strategic Games

We propose a modal logic that enables to reason about different kinds of rationality in strategic games. This logic integrates the concepts of joint action, belief, individual preference and group preference. The first part of the article is focused on the notion of individualistic rationality assumed in classical game theory: an agent decides to perform a certain action only if the agent belie...