Rational Selection vs. Academic Failure

Rationalizable strategies vs. rational beliefs in games∗

In this paper I scrutinize the concept of “rational belief” in the notion of rationalizability in strategic form games. I illustrate through an example that a rationalizable strategy may not be supported by a “rational belief”, at least under one plausible interpretation of the concept of “rational belief”. I show that a point-rationalizable strategy can be supported by a “rational belief” and,...

Improving Reading IELTS Scores: Completion vs. Selection Tasks

Genetic Algorithms: Artificial Selection vs Natural Selection

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are a stochastic searching and optimizing method inspired by the biological mechanism of natural selection and evolution. To improve the searching power of GAs for complicated problems, many deterministic measures, particularly, experience and/or expert knowledge-based heuristic rules, have been studied in the existing literature. This paper proposes a potentially more ...

RUNNING HEAD: STRATEGY SELECTION AS RATIONAL METAREASONING Strategy selection as rational metareasoning

Many contemporary accounts of human reasoning assume that the mind is equipped with multiple heuristics that could be deployed to perform a given task. This raises the question of how the mind determines when to use which heuristic. To answer this question, we developed a rational model of strategy selection, based on the theory of rational metareasoning developed in the artificial intelligence...

Rational Egoism, Animal Rights, and the Academic Connection

In his article "Animal Rights," [lJ Jan Narveson presents an alternative "rroral" theory to what he calls the "Singer-Regan position." This theory--"rational egoism"-­ \\Quld exclude non-human animals from rroral consideration and deny them all rights. His excuse for developing this "nasty doctrine" is that he is "not convinced that they [Sing­ er and Regan] are right" and that "there is much t...