Sàágua and Baumtrog on practical rationality

Practical Reasoning and Rationality

A Planning Theory of Practical Rationality

This paper combines ideas from recent philosophical work on rational agency and work in artificial intelligence on hierarchical non-linear planners which combine plan generation, execution, and monitoring, to produce a planning theory of rational agency for resource-bounded agents.

Jurisprudence and Rationality

  There are different concepts of rationality: specific rationality, normative rationality and instrumental rationality whose limitation covers the holistic rationality and represents the fate of rationality in the West. Thus following Hume reason became the slave of feelings and lost its authority for choosing the goal. In Islamic culture reason with its undeniable background in Shariah enjoy...

The knowledge of expert nurses and the practical-reflective rationality.

OBJECTIVE To identify the characteristics of an expert nurse. METHODOLOGY A group of 49 nurses starting their Master's degree was asked to answer the following question: ''Which characteristics and skills distinguish a novice from an expert nurse?'' The answers were analyzed and classified based on Bardin's content analysis. RESULTS Through a three-stage classification process, the competen...

The knowledge of expert nurses and the practical-reflective rationality

Objective: To identify the characteristics of an expert nurse. Methodology: A group of 49 nurses starting their Master’s degree was asked to answer the following question: “Which characteristics and skills distinguish a novice from an expert nurse?” The answers were analyzed and classified based on Bardin’s content analysis. Results: Through a three-stage classification process, the competences...