Fuzzy rationality : a critique and methodological unity of classical, bounded and other rationalities

Philosophy involves a criticism of scientific knowledge, not from a point of view ultimately different from that of science, but from a point of view less concerned with details and more concerned with the h- mony of the body of special sciences. Here as elsewhere, while the older logic shut out possibilities and imprisoned imagination within the walls of the familiar, the newer logic shows rather what may happen, and refuses to decide as to what must happen. Bertrand Russell At any particular stage in the development of humanity knowledge comes up against limits set by the necessarily limited character of the experience available and the existing means of obtaining knowledge. But humanity advances by overcoming such limits. New experience throws down the limits of old experience; new techniques, new means of obtaining knowledge throw down the limits of old techniques and old means of obtaining knowledge. New limits then once again appear. But there is no more reason to suppose these new limits absolute and final than there was to suppose the old ones absolute and final.

1 General Epistemics on Science and Rationality	p. 1
1.1 Decision and Cognition	p. 1
1.2 The Unity of Science, Philosophy and Rational Inquiry	p. 7
1.3 Methodology of Science and Decision-Choice Rationality	p. 13
1.4 Explanatory and Prescriptive Sciences	p. 19
1.4.1 Explanatory Science and Decision-Choice Rationality	p. 26
1.4.2 Prescriptive Science and Decision-Choice Rationality	p. 31
1.5 An Epistemic Reflection on Explanatory Theory, Prescriptive Theory and Decision-Choice Rationality	p. 36
1.5.1 Comparison of Explanatory and Prescriptive Rationalities in the Knowledge Enterprise	p. 37
1.5.2 Decision-Choice Rationalities, Constructionism, Reductionism in Social Knowledge Construct	p. 46
2 Information and Knowledge in Decision-Choice Rationality	p. 55
2.1 Information Definition and Representation in Decision-Choice Systems	p. 58
2.1.1 The Concept and Nature of Information in Cognitive Systems	p. 59
2.1.2 Information and Reality	p. 70
2.2 Knowledge Definition and Representation in Decision-Choice Systems	p. 73
2.2.1 The Concept and Nature of Knowledge	p. 75
2.2.2 Knowledge, Illusions and Reality	p. 85
3 Decision, Choice and Rationality	p. 89
3.1 Epistemological Problem of Rationality	p. 97
3.1.1 The Concept of Rationality	p. 98
3.1.2 Epistemic Conditions of Rationality	p. 102
3.1.3 Quality-Quantity Duality and Decision-Choice Rationality	p. 107
3.1.4 Critique of Some Criticisms of Rationality / the Futility of Criticizing the Optimal Rationality Postulate	p. 112
3.2 Decision and Choice Explicated	p. 116
3.3 Decision, Rationality and Optimality	p. 119
3.3.1 Rationality and Optimality	p. 120
3.3.2 Optimality and Equilibrium in Decision Systems	p. 125
3.4 Choice, Rationality and Optimality	p. 128
3.4.1 Rational Choice as an Action on Rational Decision	p. 132
3.4.2 Rationality, Choice, Optimality and Equilibrium	p. 139
4 Ideology and Decision-Choice Rationalities	p. 143
4.1 Ideology and Rationality in Institutions and Society	p. 144
4.2 Ideology and Decision-Choice Rationality in Science and Knowledge Production	p. 147
4.3 Social Costs and Benefits of Ideology in Decision-Choice Rationality	p. 151
4.4 Contents of Ideology and Decision-Choice Rationality	p. 153
References	p. 167
R1 On Aggregation and Rationality	p. 167
R2 Cost-Benefit Rationality and Decision-Choice Processes	p. 170
R2.1 On Cost-Benefit Rationality and Accounting Theory	p. 172
R2.2 On Cost-Benefit Rationality and Real Economic Costing	p. 172
R2.3 On Cost-Benefit Rationality and Decision-Choice Criteria	p. 176
R2.4 On Cost-Benefit Rationality and Pricing	p. 178
R2.5 On Cost-Benefit Rationality and Discounting	p. 180
R2.6 Cost-Benefit Rationality and Contingent Valuation Method (CVM)	p. 182
R2.7 Cost-Benefit Rationality and the Revealed Preference Approach (RPA)	p. 185
R3 On Rationality and Social Decision-Choice Process	p. 187
R4 On Expectations, Uncertainty and Rationality	p. 195
R5 On Decision-Choice Process, Fuzziness and Rationality	p. 199
R6 On Fuzzy Decisions, Applications and Rationality	p. 209
R7 On Game Theory, Risk Analysis. Fuzziness and Rationality	p. 215
R8 On Fuzzy Logic and Rationality	p. 221
R9 On Fuzzy Optimization and Decision-Choice Rationality	p. 225
R10 On Fuzzy Mathematics and Optimal Rationality	p. 229
R11 On Fuzzy Probability, Fuzzy Random Variable and Random Fuzzy Variable	p. 238
R12 On Rationality and General Decision-Choice Processes	p. 241
R13 On Rationality, Ideology and Decision-Choice Process	p. 243
R14 On Rationality, Information and Knowledge	p. 244
R15 Rationality and Category Theory in Mathematics, Logic and Sciences	p. 249
R16 On Rationality, Probabilistic Concepts and Reasoning	p. 250
R17 On Classical Rationality, Optimality and Equilibrium	p. 253
R18 On Bounded Rationality	p. 258
R19 On Rationality, Information, Games and Decision-Choice Conflicts	p. 260
R20 On Rationality and Philosophy of Science	p. 262
R21 On Rationality, Riskiness, Decision-Choice Process and Paradoxes	p. 268
R22 On Theories of Utility and Expected Utility	p. 270
R23 On Vagueness and Approximation	p. 271
R24 On Rationality, Prescriptive Science and Theory of Planning	p. 276
Index	p. 277

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