Davidson offered loose ruminations concerning rationality and rationalizing explanations, which purportedly constitute the very nature of mental properties, in support of the anomalism principle (4.2).
It thus violates the rationality of explanation to confuse one kind of explanation with another kind of object.
"By refusing to add the rationality of explanation or the cynicism of hindsight," she writes, "Night takes us back to its terrible story with something resembling innocence, the innocence of a young boy who, like most of the rest of the Jews of Europe, had no idea what was coming.
Reason explanations are satisfying both because they show that an action is a realization of rationality and also because such explanations are instances of generalizations.
However, reason explanations, according to Campbell, are more plausibly thought of as functioning along different lines: reasons explain actions by revealing the agent's rationality in so acting in light of those reasons (2005, 445).
The epistemic satisfaction that reason explanations provide is achieved differently than that of causal explanations not by being an instance of a generalization, but rather by being a realization of rationality.
In this book Philip Clayton defends the rationality of religious explanations by exploring the parallels between explanatory effects in the sciences and the explanations offered by religious believers, students of religion, and theologians.
His studies of induction, explanation, and rationality in science exerted a profound influence upon more than a generation of philosophers of science, many of whom became leaders of the discipline in their own right.
And second, as noted in 4.2, Davidson holds that there are constitutive a priori principles underlying the physical sciences which play a similar role there that rationality plays in psychological explanation.
Our findings are in accordance with the theory of bounded rationality which provides plausible explanations for physician's ability to make intelligent choices quickly, in an economic manner related to cognitive energy, and with minimum necessary information by exploiting the way information is structured in their environment [9].
