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Rationality is a much-disputed value in modern (Western) science and society. There are at least two reasons for its controversial status. First, there is no agreement about the precise meaning of the term: the concept is rather vague. Second, there is no agreement in what sense (meaning) it is a value worth being pursued. Here we are primarily interested in the meaning of the concept. In this section we shall make some general remarks about a program for its explication. This program has been sketched in J. Mooij’s inaugural address Aspecten van redelijkheid (Aspects of Rationality [28]) in which, generally speaking, Carnap’s program for the explication of cognitive rationality has been extended to a program including the rationality of preferences (‘desiderative’ rationality) and the rationality of decisions (practical rationality).
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Kuipers, T.A.F. (1978). Cognitive Rationality. In: Studies in Inductive Probability and Rational Expectation. Synthese Library, vol 123. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9830-8_2
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