It has been recently argued that knowledge is the norm of practical reasoning. A way of formulating this norm is the following bi-conditional: it is rational to treat p as a reason for acting if and only if you know that p. In my talk, I provide three new counterexamples to this claim. I show cases of rational action: i) motivated by imagining, ii) grounded in acceptance, and iii) performed in ...

Politicians and policymakers are prone to the same biases as private citizens. Even if politicians are rational, little suggests that they have altruistic interests. Such concerns lead us to be wary of proposals that rely on benign governments to implement interventionist policies that “protect us from ourselves.” We recommend paternalism that recognizes both the promise and threat of activist ...

In this article, rational arguments and religious teachings that underlie the necessity of peaceful coexistence with the followers of other religions will be discussed. Moreover, the core impediments to coexistence, such as lacking self-knowledge and being ignorant about the others, will be examined, and practical ways for effectively interacting with the followers of other religions will be su...

In the Symposium of Plato, Socrates reports that Diotima once described to him a process initiation by which lover rises from desiring one beautiful body catching sight what seems be Platonic form beauty. Scholars have debated whether is make this ascent rational or non-rational one, both working either in concert independently. This paper argues love leads and guides necessarily involves activ...

In the last two decades, there has been a significant increase in infrastructure development on slopes of hilly regions world, due to population growth. There are many infrastructures unsaturated expansive slopes, especially semi-arid and arid regions. Rainfall infiltration is one major factors that contributes slope foundations failures with soils. current study, rational approach proposed con...

Elimination theory has many applications, in particular, it describes explicitly an image of a complex line under rational transformation and determines the number of common zeroes of two polynomials in one variable. We generalize classical elimination theory and create elimination theory along an algebraic curve using the notion of determinantal representation of algebraic curve. This new theo...

Abstract The development and rational utilization of regional water resources (RWR) is an important foundation for achieving comprehensive socio-economic progress. Socio-economic has created necessary conditions funds the resources, two support constrain each other. Therefore, this article conducts a quantitative analysis RWR to ensure sustainable economic social (EAS) coupling system. An evalu...