Reasoning, Rationality, and Probability
edited by Maria Carla Galavotti, Roberto Scazzieri, and Patrick Suppes, editors
This book broadens our concept of reasoning and
rationality to allow for a more pluralistic and situational
view of human thinking as a practical activity. Drawing
on contributors across disciplines including philosophy,
economics, psychology, statistics, computer science,
engineering, and physics, Reasoning, Rationality, and
Probability argues that the search for strong theories
should leave room for the construction of context-sensitive
conceptual tools. Both science and everyday life,
the authors argue, are too complex and multifaceted to be
forced into ready-made schemata.
Maria Carla Galavotti is professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Bologna.
Roberto Scazzieri is professor of Economics, University of Bologna.
Patrick
Suppes (1922–2014) was the Lucie Stern Professor of
Philosophy emeritus at Stanford University.
2/1/2008
- Contributors vii
- Foreword xi
- Introduction: Reasoning and Patterns of Rationality 1
Maria Carla Galavotti, Roberto Scazzieri and Patrick Suppes
- I Practical Reason
- 1 The Good and
the Bad, the True and the False 13
Aimée Drolet and Patrick Suppes
- 2 Three Types
of Decision Theory 37
Nils-Eric Sahlin and Niklas Vareman
- 3 Welfare,
Voting and the Constitution of a Federal Assembly 61
Luc Bovens and Stephan Hartmann
- 4 Acting
Rationally with Irrational Strategies 77
David Atkinson and Jeanne Peijnenburg
- 5 In- and
Ex-probabilities: Keynes and Econophysics 87
Domenico Costantini and Ubaldo Garibaldi
- II Mental Frames and Cognitive Abilities
- 6 Reasoning to
be Rational 119
John Broome
- 7 Pragmatic
Arguments for Rationality Constraints 139
Wlodek Rabinowicz
- 8 Rationality
and Prediction in the Sciences of the Artificial: Economics as a Design
Science 165
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
- 9 Context,
Congruence and Co-ordination 187
Roberto Scazzieri
- III Situations and Reasoning
- 10 Rationality
and its Bounds: Re-Framing Social Framing 211
Matthias Klaes
- 11 Causal
Pluralism and Context 233
Maria Carla Galavotti
- 12 Causal
Medical Reasoning and Pre-Emption 253
Raffaella Campaner
- 13 Abduction in
the Context of a Reasoning Process: the SCIFF Framework 271
Marco Alberti, Federico Chesani, Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma and Paola Mello
- Name Index 289
- Subject Index 297
ISBN (Paperback): 1575865580 (9781575865584)
ISBN (Cloth): 1575865572 (9781575865577)
ISBN (Electronic): 1575867982 (9781575867984)
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