In The New York Review of Books in 1982, Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary biologist, called Mr. Gardner "the single brightest beacon defending rationality and good science against the mysticism and anti-intellectualism that surround us".
Politician T" In general, the interviewees positioned themselves as rational actors who try to defend the rationality of the decision-making processes in spite of several factors that actually influence the decisions or actual implementation of the policies.
The challenge remained to defend the rationality and objectivity, the fairness of decision-making in the alternative framework.
Philosophers concerned to defend the rationality of science against sociological misrepresentations include Larry Laudan (1984) James Brown (1989, 1994), Alvin Goldman (1987, 1995) and Susan Haack (1996).
However, this response misses the mark if the prior distribution expresses ignorance rather than opinion: it seems harder to defend the rationality of differences of opinion that stem from different ways of spelling out ignorance.
Others have staunchly defended the "rationality" of mysticism against charges of irrationalism (Staal, 1975).
With very few exceptions, the ample philosophical literature defending the rationality and evaluative importance of emotions explicitly excludes envy and a few other nasty emotions as irredeemable.
Throughout his career he defended the rationality of theism and for several decades was almost alone in doing so among English-language philosophers.
The plurality of actors is the most effective source of rationality, because all of them defend and promote their own interests and the decision is the outcome of this mutual adaptation.
Economic theories of rationality, welfare, and social choice defend substantive philosophical theses often informed by relevant philosophical literature and of evident interest to those interested in action theory, philosophical psychology, and social and political philosophy.
