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In the end, it may turn out that our best concept of rationality does maximize the number of rational episodes, but such a result should count as an empirically based bonus rather than as a desideratum.
Williams writes, "It would be a kind of insanity never to experience sentiments of this kind towards anyone, and it would be an insane concept of rationality which insisted that a rational person never would".
Another problem with the rational agent model regards the concept of rationality.
If the concept of rationality does not simply consist in one's conception, at any given time, of rationality, then it cannot be captured in terms of the actual goings on in one's brain (the same point applies if we substitute "everyone's" for "one's").
Economic theory reduces the concept of rationality to internal consistency.
What then are we to do with the concept of rationality?
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On his account, concepts of rationality are purely "local" and are themselves subject to evolution.
For instance, to construct the principles of justice, she deploys very meager and indeterminate concepts of rationality and abstracts from the circumstances of justice.
Richard Dawkins, for example, jolted us into realizing that we are just survival mechanisms for our own genes, sophisticated robots in service of huge colonies of replicators to whom concepts of rationality, intelligence, agency, and even the human soul are irrelevant.
He therefore indicated that formal-epistemological concepts of rationality must be expanded to recognize that experience and committed actions are formative of authentic knowledge, and that reason cannot, in Cartesian manner, be monadically dislocated from its historical, sensory, experiential and voluntaristic foundations.
Thus Simon [ 39] is sometimes seen as writing from the rationalist tradition, but he was critical of the more basic rational models and his concept of 'bounded rationality' involves concentrating the review of data on a more limited range of possible solutions.
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