Rationality and Institutions - Open Journal of Philosophy

OJPP > Vol.11 No.4, November 2021

Open Journal of Philosophy

Volume 11, Issue 4 (November 2021)

ISSN Print: 2163-9434 ISSN Online: 2163-9442

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Rationality and Institutions ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojpp.2021.114034 199 Downloads 909 Views Citations

Author(s)

Jan-Erik Lane

Affiliation(s)

University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

ABSTRACT

It is now commonplace to renounce rational action in the social sciences. It is claimed that rationality as the maximization of self-interest is impossible as well as that it is unethical. Yet rational choice remains a most important paradigm for understanding human behaviour. D. Kahneman has contributed to the analysis of human action criticizing the two endpoints, namely perfect individual rationality on the one hand and group or collective decision making on the other hand. The first suffers from bias and the second from noise. Thus, there is somewhat of a contradiction here somewhere, as group rationality could not cancel out individual deficiencies.

KEYWORDS

Intentionality, Causality, Bounded Rationality, Collective Rationality, Institutions

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Lane, J. (2021) Rationality and Institutions. Open Journal of Philosophy, 11, 510-515. doi: 10.4236/ojpp.2021.114034.

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