Minimal Rationality. Christopher Cherniak

1989 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-173
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Stich
Keyword(s):  
Minimal Rationality

Minimal rationality

1989 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-139
Author(s):  
Lee Spector ◽  
James Hendler
Keyword(s):  
Minimal Rationality

scholarly journals Naturalism, tractability and the adaptive toolbox

Synthese ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Rich ◽  
Mark Blokpoel ◽  
Ronald de Haan ◽  
Maria Otworowska ◽  
Marieke Sweers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Accuracy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ecological Rationality ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Robust Property ◽  
The One ◽  
Minimal Rationality ◽  
Computational Resources ◽  
Simple Heuristics ◽  
Do So

Abstract Many compelling examples have recently been provided in which people can achieve impressive epistemic success, e.g. draw highly accurate inferences, by using simple heuristics and very little information. This is possible by taking advantage of the features of the environment. The examples suggest an easy and appealing naturalization of rationality: on the one hand, people clearly can apply simple heuristics, and on the other hand, they intuitively ought do so when this brings them high accuracy at little cost.. The ‘ought-can’ principle is satisfied, and rationality is meaningfully normative. We show, however, that this naturalization program is endangered by a computational wrinkle in the adaptation process taken to be responsible for this heuristics-based (‘ecological’) rationality: for the adaptation process to guarantee even minimal rationality, it requires astronomical computational resources, making the problem intractable. We consider various plausible auxiliary assumptions in attempt to remove this obstacle, and show that they do not succeed; intractability is a robust property of adaptation. We discuss the implications of our findings for the project of naturalizing rationality.

Minimal Rationality

Mind ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol XC (358) ◽  
pp. 161-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER CHERNIAK
Keyword(s):  
Minimal Rationality

scholarly journals Belief’s minimal rationality

2019 ◽  
Vol 177 (11) ◽  
pp. 3263-3282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini
Keyword(s):  
Minimal Rationality

Minimal Rationality and Self-Transformation

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Schwartz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Minimal Rationality
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