This paper argues that instrumental rationality is more permissive than expected utility theory. The most compelling instrumentalist argument in favour of separability, its core requirement, is that ...

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It is natural for human beings to look for ways and means of satisfying their basic human drives. People in hunter- gatherer societies killed animals and collected whatever food they could find in the ...

Humans cannot survive without evidence and reason. If you aim to live, then on seeing a cobra you better recognise the evidence that it is venomous and run for your life! Instrumental rationality is a ...

A Senior Programmes Officer at the Center for Democratic Development-Ghana (CDD-Ghana), Michael Augustus Akagbor, is urging Parliament to adopt the concept of instrumental rationality in the ...

Michael Jordan is widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time. Through his first decade with the NBA, Jordan’s success was based on physical pounding—he dominated the paint by ...

The smart phone has become like a valet, arranging your life in terms that make it liveable. The smart phone is an object that does your thinking for you. You use its calculator to do what you used to ...

Legal institutions that index legal capacity to decision-making capacity are often inexplicit on the theoretical basis for holding that an individual—minor or adult—possesses decision-making capacity.

When we come to experiential religiosity, we step from the domain of separation into the domain of union. The previous types of religiosity can be described as religiosities of distance, for the first ...

Michael Jordan is widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time. Through his first decade with the NBA, Jordan’s success was based on physical pounding—he dominated the paint by ...