However, we have to remember that in many economic models a rationality of people is assumed, their computing skills, iron will and farsightedness, since such assumptions help to solve optimization problems.
Agiza et al. [5] studied the complex dynamics in a bounded rationality duopoly game with a nonlinear demand function and a linear cost function.
Felde and Elverdam have described how high cholesterol and risk of cardiovascular disease is embedded in a contextual rationality, contingent on the patient's experience and social practice [ 31].
This is one of the respects in which Schelling has again become part of contemporary philosophical debate, where the need to seek means of legitimation which do not rely on the notion of a rationality inherent in the world remains a major challenge.
However, the death penalty today is precisely grounded in an "economic" rationality.
Two of the earliest pieces clearly identifiable as feminist epistemology were Lorraine Code's "Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemically Significant?" appearing in 1981 in Metaphilosophy and Sandra Harding's "Is Gender a Variable in Conceptions of Rationality: A Survey of Issues" appearing in 1982 in Dialectica.
Central to Liberal attitudes was a trust in rationality, faith in the idea of progress, attachment to individualism, emphasis on human rights, and an eagerness to emancipate underprivileged groups.
His praise of reason is something to celebrate in a society where rationality is seldom drafted into service where we need it most: politics, the world of business and many other areas of life.
In a democracy, the rationality of the sovereign's commands is practically secured, since it is unlikely that a majority of a large number of people will agree to an irrational design.
429D-430B), abstinence from meat (On the Eating of Flesh; De esu carnium), and a belief in the rationality of animals (On the Cleverness of Animals, Beasts are Rational; Bruta Animalia Ratione Uti), probably because he considers them implied in, or compatible with, statements made in Plato (e.g. in the Phaedo, Timaeus).
