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Since at least the mid-1980s claims have been made for rationality in rats. For example, that rats are capable of inferential reasoning (Blaisdell, Sawa, Leising, & Waldmann, 2006; Bunsey & Eichenbaum, 1996), or that they can make ...
Stephane, Savanah
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The project of identifying the cognitive mechanisms or information-processing functions that cause people to categorize others by their race is one of the longest-standing and socially-impactful scientific issues in all of the behavioral sciences.
David Pietraszewski
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Immorality and Irrationality [PDF]
Does immorality necessarily involve irrationality? The question is often taken to be among the deepest in moral philosophy. But apparently deep questions sometimes admit of deflationary answers.
Brunero J.+17 more
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Rationality as Reasons-Responsiveness [PDF]
John Broome argues that rationality cannot consist in reasons-responsiveness since rationality supervenes on the mind, while reasons-responsiveness does not supervene on the mind.
Kiesewetter, Benjamin
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Author Correction: Public attitudes towards social media field experiments [PDF]
Vincent J. Straub+3 more
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Zagzebski on Rationality [PDF]
This paper examines Linda Zagzebski’s account of rationality, as set out in her rich, wide-ranging, and important book, Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in Belief.
Pritchard, Duncan, Ryan, Shane
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The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower Sense
In the Transcendental Dialectic, Kant searched for a universal concept of reason different from the understanding and offered the short formula “the faculty of principles” (KrV A299/B356). I will argue that this is only one and not the most pertinent and
Lewin Michael
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Promoting the rule of rationality over positive law and legal thinking [PDF]
The paper makes the following claims. First, the most important problem for contemporary legal philosophy is contrasting the morally disgusting state of the world. Second, qua jurisprudents, the problem must be dealt with indirectly.
Chiassoni Pierluigi
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Taking the sting out of choice: Diversification of investments
It is often the case that one can choose a mix of alternative options rather than have to select one option only. Such an opportunity to diversify may blunt the risk involved in all-or-none choice. Here we investigate repeated investment decisions in two-
Judith Avrahami+2 more
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RATIONAL DISTANCES WITH RATIONAL ANGLES [PDF]
In 1946 Erd\H os asked for the maximum number of unit distances, $u(n)$, among $n$ points in the plane. He showed that $u(n)> n^{1+c/\log\log n}$ and conjectured that this was the true magnitude. The best known upper bound is $u(n)
József Solymosi+2 more
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