179. Rationality Without Justification

2020-01-08

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Logic, argumentation, explanation - we constantly use justification as a means of verifying that our beliefs & decisions are rational…but what if rationality doesnt actually work like that?

Overcoming the Justificationist Addiction, by David Miller - https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/miller/swpfinal.pdf

Theory of Justification: Criticisms, on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_justification#Criticisms

Paradox of Rationality, on Investopedia - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/paradox-rationality.asp

27 Paradoxes of Rational Choice Theory, by Till Gruene-Yanoff - https://people.kth.se/~gryne/papers/Paradox_Proof.pdf

Defensive Decision Making, by Farnam Street - https://fs.blog/2018/11/defensive-decision-making/

Book Review: Mistakes Were Made: How We Justify Bad Decisions, by Karl Niebuhr - https://medium.com/karlbooklover/mistakes-were-made-how-we-justify-bad-decisions-7d585cd67214

Justified Belief As Responsible Belief, by Richard Foley - https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/faculty/documents/justifiedasresponsible.pdf

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