Our cognitive hardware (mechanisms and capacities) develops through Darwinian natural selection, but our cognitive software (the methods and procedures by which we transact our cognitive business) develops in a Teilhardian process of rationality-geared decision-making that involves purposeful intelligence-guided variation and selection.
We have been subjected to a White House negotiating process that violates every standard of rationality and transparency.
For to deny that some cognitive process is the outcome of applying rules of rationality is not to imply that it is an irrational process: the perception of similarity in appearance between two members of the same family also cannot be reduced to the application of rules of rationality.
The article treats the problem of "rationality" in learning processes in research policies.
Descriptions of these processes, however, can over-estimate the degree of rationality in policy-making.
Decision-making is governed by intuition (system 1), and analytical, deliberative process (system 2), thus, rational decision-making should reflect both formal principles of rationality and intuition about good decisions.
Knowledge plays an important role in decision-making processes, often within an ideal idea about the role of rationality, for instance bounded rationality (Simon 1957 , 1987 or communicative rationality (Habermas 1984 , 1987.
This study adopts a more realistic view of rationality accounting for respondents' limited capacities to process information.
The Stoics hold that, in the process of growing up, human beings acquire rationality, which importantly consists in acquiring preconceptions (prolêpseis).
But he defines rationality as a process of calculating the costs and benefits of all alternative policies in order to determine their relative utility, i.e. their ability to maximize power.
This is a fundamental preoccupation of the Romantics, who believed the way to reconcile man and nature was through this soul development, education the combination of experience and contemplation and that only this process, not the rationality of the previous century, would bring about true Enlightenment.
