[PENULTIMATE DRAFT] Joel Pust University of Delaware

This paper provides a rationale for advocating pancritical rationalism. First, it argues that the advocate of critical rationalism may accept (but not be internally justified in accepting) that there is ‘justification’ in an externalist sense, specifically that certain procedures can track truth, and suggest that this recognition should inform practice; that one should try to determine which so...

An agent architecture supports the two forms of deliberation used by human agents. Cartesian, constructivist rationalism leads to game theory, decision theory and logical models. Ecological rationalism leads to deliberative actions that are derived from agents’ prior interactions and are not designed; i.e., they are strictly emergent. This paper aims to address the scant attention paid by the a...

Abstract For Hans Albert, what is to be deemed morally right or wrong could either based on human conventions (decisions) findings of facts (cognitions). As an ethical non-cognitivist Albert emphasizes that decision-based are constitutive ‘morals/ethics’. Yet, it has been claimed Popper’s falsificationism applies prescriptive moral theories roughly as does descriptive empirical and this analogy...