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Are We Rational When It Comes to Rationality?
Are We Rational When It Comes to Rationality?

Author(s): Jakub Rudnicki
Subject(s): Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Warszawski - Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Instytut Filozofii
Keywords: Review; rationality; decision making; Gigerenzer; Kahneman; Tversky; group agent; bias; heuristics

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a review of the book Rationality and Decision Making: From Normative Rules to Heuristics edited by Marek Hetmański. The volume consists of eighteen chapters on different topics revolving around the common theme of rationality. The review discusses each paper, focusing more closely on some, in order to evaluate the arguments and claims that I find interesting, controversial, or surprising. Most chapters fall into the category of standard analytic philosophy with just a few lightly flirting with other philosophical traditions and one discussing José Ortega y Gasset.

  • Issue Year: 26/2018
  • Issue No: 4 (104)
  • Page Range: 131-145
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English