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Free Download Rationality and Time Bias
by Abelard Podgorski
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1009517139 | 68 Pages | True PDF | 1.05 MB

Free Download Harry W. Smart, "Criticism and Public Rationality: Professional Rigidity and the Search for Caring Government"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 041561354X | EPUB | pages: 236 | 0.8 mb
Criticism is at the heart of any political discussion, and criticism of old policies is central to the development of new ones. In its analysis of political decision-making, this reissue, first published in 1991, examines the principles which control the process of policy criticism. It identifies two fundamental and related obstacles to this process: the privileged status accorded to ‘professional judgement’ and the conflicting philosophical ideas that shape political argument. Based on the study of Europe’s largest local authority, the book presents a theory of decision-making that can be applied to institutions at all levels.

Free Download Terry Nardin, "Rationality in Politics and its Limits"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138306347 | EPUB | pages: 168 | 0.4 mb
The word ‘rationality’ and its cognates, like ‘reason’, have multiple contexts and connotations. Rational calculation can be contrasted with rational interpretation. There is the rationality of proof and of persuasion, of tradition and of the criticism of tradition. Rationalism (and rationalists) can be reasonable or unreasonable. Reason is sometimes distinguished from revelation, superstition, convention, prejudice, emotion, and chance, but all of these also involve reasoning. In politics, three views of rationality – economic, moral, and historical – have been especially important, often defining approaches to politics and political theory such as utilitarianism and rational choice theory. These approaches privilege positive or natural law, responsibilities, or human rights, and emphasize the importance of culture and tradition, and therefore meaning and context.

Free Download The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality by Karl Popper, Martyn Swain, Ukemi Audiobooks from W. F. Howes Ltd
English | April 20, 2021 | ISBN: B092RB9YV2 | 8 hours and 30 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 246 Mb
In a career spanning 60 years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the 20th century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a collection of some of Popper’s most important material on this subject.
Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibility of the scientist, the structure of history and the perennial choice between reason and revolution. In doing so, he attacks intellectual fashions (like positivism) that exaggerate what science and rationality have done, as well as intellectual fashions (like relativism) that denigrate what science and rationality can do. Scientific knowledge, according to Popper, is one of the most rational and creative of human achievements, but it is also inherently fallible and subject to revision.
In place of intellectual fashions, Popper offers his own critical rationalism – a view that he regards both as a theory of knowledge and as an attitude towards human life, human morals and democracy.

Free Download Michel Zouboulakis, "The Varieties of Economic Rationality "
English | ISBN: 0415530849 | 2014 | 192 pages | EPUB | 443 KB
The concept of economic rationality is important for the historical evolution of Economics as a scientific discipline. The common idea about this concept -even between economists- is that it has a unique meaning which is universally accepted. This new volume argues that "economic rationality" is not not a universal concept with one single meaning, and that it in fact has different, if not conflicting, interpretations in the evolution of discourse on economics. In order to achieve this, the book traces the historical evolution of the concept of economic rationality from Adam Smith to the present, taking in thinkers from Mill to Friedman, and encompassing approaches from neoclassical to behavioural economics.

Free Download The Rationality and Justification of Legislation: Essays in Legisprudence By Luc J. Wintgens (auth.), Luc J. Wintgens, A. Daniel Oliver-Lalana (eds.)
2013 | 186 Pages | ISBN: 3319000616 | PDF | 2 MB
The essays collected in this book address legislation from the viewpoint of legal theory and provide an overview of current research in legisprudence as a new scholarly approach to lawmaking. The overall focus of the volume is on the justification of legislation, with a special emphasis on the intricate notion of legislative rationality. With the rational justification of legislation as their central theme, the essays elaborate on the foundations and bounds of legislation and the search for a more principled lawmaking, discuss the role of legislation within the framework of democratic constitutionalism, analyze legislation as implementation of constitutional law, and explore how legislative argumentation in parliament can be construed as a source of justification of laws.​

Free Download Enrique Leff, "Life Imaginaries, Environmental Rationality, and Dialogue of Savoirs: The Sustainability of Life "
English | ISBN: 1032705698 | 2024 | 226 pages | EPUB, PDF | 873 KB + 25 MB
Shifting from the idea that our current ‘environmental question’ arises from the history of metaphysics and its focus on ‘Being’ over ‘Life’―and the attendant explorations of the thought of Heidegger and Heraclitus―this book unfolds a philosophical and sociological proposal for transitioning toward the sustainability of life.

Free Download John J. Mearsheimer, "How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy"
English | ISBN: 0300269307 | 2023 | 304 pages | PDF | 947 KB
A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?

Free Download James A. Harold Franciscan University of Steubenville, "Rationality within Modern Psychological Theory: Integrating Philosophy and Empirical Science"
English | ISBN: 1498519709 | 2016 | 206 pages | EPUB | 925 KB
Rationality within Modern Psychological Theory examines the rational and irrational dimensions of human nature and of the psyche and logos. Harold combines the traditionally divided views of classical philosophy’s affirmation of the existence of intellect and modern psychology’s emphasis on immanent psychological factors over rational, transcendent relations. By accepting the power of being in an adequate relation to reality, while still admitting the manifold ways that people evade truth and reality, psychologists will be able to emphasize the power of an individual to establish a truthful relation with reality. This book is recommended for scholars of psychology and philosophy.

Free Download Professor Amartya Sen, "Rationality and Freedom"
English | 2003 | pages: 751 | ISBN: 0674009479, 0674013514 | PDF | 24,3 mb
Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice, the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues. This volume-the first of the two-is principally concerned with rationality and freedom.