Habermas' concepts of lifeworld, system and rationalization is an advance on those of Weber, in recognising that modernity has 'unfulfilled potential'. This paper suggests they may nevertheless benefit from being enriched by the philosophy of Dooyeweerd. It then discusses how these notions may be applied to inform our attitude towards information technology.

This paper examines the connection between path independence and transitive rationalization of a choice function in a general domain where a choice function may not include all possible non-empty subsets of the universal set. Describing a sequential choice procedure, this paper shows that the requirement of path independence of a choice function is equivalent to Richter's Congruence Axiom and t...

The task of rationalization aims to extract pieces input text as rationales justify neural network predictions on classification tasks. By definition, represent key used for prediction and thus should have similar feature distribution compared the original text. However, previous methods mainly focused maximizing mutual information between labels while neglecting relationship To address this is...

Detecting Ideas of Rationalization in Mediaeval Islamic Building Design – what is the point of this investigation? To tell it straight away: it’s about the interpretation of design under an economic perspective as analyzed in the case of the Rizk Cami in Hasankeyf. In this respect ‟rationalization” is not meant to describe the rule of ratio, proportions or other formal methods to produce design...

There are several examples of heuristic rules first proposed from empirical observation, which eventually earned physicochemical validity after the fundamental derivation of a posteriori. This may be the case of Sherwood’s plot – for which a sound rationalization from first principles, entailing enthalpy and mass balances, is provided here; it applies to (fine) chemicals undergoing concentr...

The rise of government by indicators, by figures may reveal a new wave of rationalization organized by the state in the classic Weberian sense. Contemporary forms of government are marked by the rise of indicators, measures and new metrics to compare, certify, codify and evaluate. In many countries, performance measurement has become one of the symbols of the transformation of governance. The p...

When rationalization is carried out in the community the result is that all forms of work must be considered in the same way as modern industrial work, whether it be office-work, administration, ?r even work in hospitals and the care of the sick in general. This produces four important results, i.e. (a) increasingly specialised jobs, (b) industrial organization, (c) specialized working environm...

BACKGROUND This article examines uncomfortable realities that the European hospital sector currently faces and the potential impact of wide-spread rationalization policies such as (hospital) payment reform and privatization. METHODS Review of relevant international literature. RESULTS Based on the evidence we present, rationalization policies such as (hospital) payment reform and privatizat...

Scientific environmental policies promote energy efficiency improvement by influencing the industrial structure and investment in R&D innovation. In view of insufficient impact Air Pollution Prevention Control Action Plan (Action for short) on efficiency, this paper takes 30 provinces municipalities Chinese Mainland during 2004–2017 as samples investigates China’s well path means DID method...