Sentence examples for normative rational from inspiring English sources

She argues that those without normative, rational capacities share certain "natural" capacities with persons, and these natural capacities are often the content of the moral demands that persons make on each other.

A third way of addressing this problem has been taken up by Korsgaard who maintains that there is a big difference between those with normative, rational capacities and those without, but unlike Kant, believes both humans and non-humans are the proper objects of our moral concern.

Traditional utility theory (also known as decision theory, see entry on normative theories of rational choice: expected utility) explores a particular strategy for establishing the norms that govern which actions it is rational for us to perform in a given situation.

Toward a normative model of rational argumentation for critical accounting discussion.

This study incorporates upper echelons theory and entrepreneurship research to build up a rational normative framework of strategic intent perspective, market leader/follower positions, and founder CEOs/family-successor CEOs for the international expansion strategy of small- and medium-sized enterprises and family firms.

However, prospect theory is not plausible as a normative theory for rational behaviour under risk.

(See the entries Bayes's theorem and normative theories of rational choice: expected utility for details).

In both of these passages, Spinoza criticizes the assumption that man is governed by his own set of rational, normative laws, rather than the laws that govern the rest of nature.

The attempt to develop models of decision which take resource limitations into account is sometimes presented as a counterpoint to the normative models of rational choice which are often employed in economics and political science.

70 Divergent perspectives on the disease and treatment between patients and health professionals do not facilitate adherence by opposing rational normative biomedical recommendations to meaningful individual stories, interpretations, and experiences.

As in the Quinean case, the Replacement Naturalist must maintain that without rational determinacy, normative theories of adjudication are banal, mere exercises in descriptive sociology.