The Mystery of Rationality Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences
This book contributes to the developing dialogue between cognitive science and social sciences. It focuses on a central issue in both fields, i.e. the nature and the limitations of the rationality of beliefs and action. The development of cognitive scienc
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Mystery of Rationality Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences
The Mystery of Rationality
Gérald Bronner Francesco Di Iorio •
Editors
The Mystery of Rationality Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences
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Editors Gérald Bronner Paris Diderot University Paris, France
Francesco Di Iorio Nankai University Tianjin, China
and French Academy of Technologies Paris, France and French National Academy of Medicine Paris, France
ISBN 978-3-319-94026-7 ISBN 978-3-319-94028-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94028-1
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To the memory of Raymond Boudon
Contents
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Introduction: Rationality as an Enigmatic Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . Gérald Bronner and Francesco Di Iorio
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Our Agenda and Its Rationality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Agassi
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Intentional, Unintentional and Sub-intentional Aspects of Social Mechanisms and Rationality: The Example of Commitments in Political Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alban Bouvier
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On the Explanation of Human Action: “Good Reasons”, Critical Rationalism and Argumentation Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enzo Di Nuoscio
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Rationality, Irrationality, Realism and the Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Dumouchel
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First Generation Behavioral Economists on Rationality, and Its Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roger Frantz
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Embodied Rationality . . . . .
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