Instrumental Rationality

Author : John Brunero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191063940
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instrumental Rationality written by John Brunero and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rationality requires that we intend the means that we believe are necessary for achieving our ends. Instrumental Rationality explores the formulation and status of this requirement of means-ends coherence. In particular, it is concerned with understanding what means-ends coherence requires of us as believers and agents, and why. Means-ends coherence is a genuine requirement of rationality and cannot be explained away as a myth, confused with a disjunction of requirements to have, or not have, specific attitudes. Nor is means-ends coherence strongly normative, such that we always ought to be means-ends coherent. A promising strategy for assessing why this requirement should exist is to consider the constitutive aim of intention. Just as belief has a constitutive aim (truth) that can explain some of the theoretical requirements of consistency and coherence governing beliefs, intention has a constitutive aim (here called "controlled action") that can explain some of the requirements of consistency and coherence governing intentions. We can therefore better understand means-ends coherence by understanding the constitutive aims of both of the attitudes governed by the requirement, intention, and belief.

Author : Stephen Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317797337
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money, Time and Rationality in Max Weber written by Stephen Parsons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study into the roots of Max Weber's Political Economy, is an intriguing read and a valuable contribution to the Weberian literature. Parsons argues that Weber's analysis is highly influenced by the Austrian School of Economics and the relationship between his critique of centrally planned economies and that of Mises.

Author : Max Horkheimer
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781680353
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critique of Instrumental Reason written by Max Horkheimer and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the state-bureaucratic apparatus and ‘instrumental reason’ and the concomitant liquidation of the individual and the basic social institutions and relationships associated with the individual.

Author : David Van Mill
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450369
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan written by David Van Mill and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of the theory of Hobbes.

Author : John Brunero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191063959
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instrumental Rationality written by John Brunero and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rationality requires that we intend the means that we believe are necessary for achieving our ends. Instrumental Rationality explores the formulation and status of this requirement of means-ends coherence. In particular, it is concerned with understanding what means-ends coherence requires of us as believers and agents, and why. Means-ends coherence is a genuine requirement of rationality and cannot be explained away as a myth, confused with a disjunction of requirements to have, or not have, specific attitudes. Nor is means-ends coherence strongly normative, such that we always ought to be means-ends coherent. A promising strategy for assessing why this requirement should exist is to consider the constitutive aim of intention. Just as belief has a constitutive aim (truth) that can explain some of the theoretical requirements of consistency and coherence governing beliefs, intention has a constitutive aim (here called "controlled action") that can explain some of the requirements of consistency and coherence governing intentions. We can therefore better understand means-ends coherence by understanding the constitutive aims of both of the attitudes governed by the requirement, intention, and belief.

Author : Sergio Tenenbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192592262
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rational Powers in Action written by Sergio Tenenbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance. Rational Powers in Action locates these features of the human condition at the heart of a new theory of instrumental rationality. Where many theories of rational agency focus on instantaneous choices between sharply defined outcomes, treating the temporally extended and partially open-ended character of action as an afterthought, this book argues that the deep structure of instrumental rationality can only be understood if we see how it governs the pursuit of long-term, indeterminate ends. These are ends that cannot be realized through a single momentary action, and whose content leaves partly open what counts as realizing the end. Sergio Tenenbaum argues that we need to focus on temporal duration and the indeterminacy of ends in intentional action, even to explain the rational governance of relatively simple actions. Theories of moment-by-moment preference maximization, or indeed any understanding of instrumental rationality on the basis of momentary mental items, cannot capture the fundamental structure of our instrumentally rational capacities. Tenenbaum provides a new theory of instrumental rationality as rationality in action.

Author : Sergio Tenenbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192592270
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rational Powers in Action written by Sergio Tenenbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance. Rational Powers in Action locates these features of the human condition at the heart of a new theory of instrumental rationality. Where many theories of rational agency focus on instantaneous choices between sharply defined outcomes, treating the temporally extended and partially open-ended character of action as an afterthought, this book argues that the deep structure of instrumental rationality can only be understood if we see how it governs the pursuit of long-term, indeterminate ends. These are ends that cannot be realized through a single momentary action, and whose content leaves partly open what counts as realizing the end. Sergio Tenenbaum argues that we need to focus on temporal duration and the indeterminacy of ends in intentional action, even to explain the rational governance of relatively simple actions. Theories of moment-by-moment preference maximization, or indeed any understanding of instrumental rationality on the basis of momentary mental items, cannot capture the fundamental structure of our instrumentally rational capacities. Tenenbaum provides a new theory of instrumental rationality as rationality in action.

Author : Robert Nozick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691020965
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Rationality written by Robert Nozick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of Anarchy, State, and Utopia continues his search for the connections between philosophy and "ordinary" experience and shows how principles function in our day-to-day thinking and in our efforts to live peacefully and productively with each other.

Author : K. Spracklen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230239501
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure written by K. Spracklen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the work of Jurgen Habermas to interrogate leisure as a meaningful, theoretical concept. Drawing on examples from sport, culture and tourism, and going beyond concerns about the grand project of leisure, Spracklen argues that leisure is central to understanding wider debates about identity, postmodernity and globalization.

Author : L. Dong
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113753642X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Administration Theories written by L. Dong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines key public administration theories from the perspective of instrumental and value rationalities. The theories are analyzed on core value, assumption about human nature, methodology, role of government, and disciplinary positioning. The author traces the historical trajectory of each of the two camps of theories.