Unifying Epistemic and Practical Rationality

Epistemic Norms and Rationality

Rationality is often said to be a normative concept: to be rational is not a descriptive feature of an individual or a system, but a normative one, since rationality pertains to what one ought to, or should, do, think or feel. But what is it in turn for an individual or system to ought to do, think, or feel something? I propose to start from this problem and try to see in what sense the notion ...

Epistemic Rationality as Instrumental Rationality: A Critique

My aim in this paper is to explore the relationship between epistemic rationality and instrumental rationality. By epistemic rationality, I mean, roughly, the kind of rationality which one displays when one believes propositions that are strongly supported by one's evidence and refrains from believing propositions that are improbable given one's evidence. Prominent epistemologists frequently em...

Bounded rationality and Epistemic Logic

As it is well known, there exists a chasm between the picture of perfect rationality on which modern mainstream economics is by and large built, and the limited reasoning and decision making abilities displayed by real agents. Herbert Simon groundbreaking work (cf., for instance, Simon 1955) pioneered research on bounded rationality. At the onset a study of administrative and organizational beh...

Practical Reasoning and Rationality

Rationality in the Epistemic Geometry of Hujurat Surah Commentary

The conflict between rationality and devotion is rooted from an inappropriate comprehension about status of reason in epistemic system of religion and also being unfamiliar with pure and vital educations. Although some of the educations from the Divine Book have devotional prospects and are out of the reach of conventional reason, pondering in verses indicates that this does not mean digressing...