Sentences with phrase «rational agents»

A child of ten knows that markets are not composed of perfectly informed rational agents.

From these considerations it becomes clear that mathematics, which superficially appears to have no relevance to the knowledge of human nature, actually affords important insights about human beings, not only as rational agents, but as persons with freedom yet also bound by necessities in the spatiotemporal order.

Maybe Kant is right, and we should rely on the formal autonomy of rational agents who see each other as ends in themselves.

Morals and manners are not conflicting, but complementary, and sometimes overlapping, parts of the ensemble of fundamental beliefs and needs that we hold simply because we are rational agents blessed with practical reason.

But I also acknowledge that he still believed that his patients were rational agents rather than biochemical automata.

Because ethics and politics are about the real, existing world, and in this existing world humans are not purely rational agents but, rather, fallen creatures redeemed by grace on the condition that they are willing to accept God's action within them.

Strategic uncertainty: involves the fact that information is a strategic tool for rational agents.

It thus leads us to assume that the arguments of others are insidious, and to avoid engaging in the hard work of trying to understand their arguments or to appreciate them either as rational agents or as human beings.

That is, most economic models posit that high school students are rational agents who weigh the expected benefits and costs.

Behind Cadbury's simian success was an unlikely inspiration: Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in 2002 for showing that people are not the rational agents that economists had thought they were.

In the February 2007 draft of their paper entitled «The Performance and Persistence of Individual Investors: Rational Agents or Tulip Maniacs?»

I do not mean that the language of action is there to be analyzed, but rather that action itself is there, available as a mode of being to that fundamental, that actual being, the responsible and rational agent.

Facts are thought of as solid blocks which all rational agents will perceive in the same way.

I especially like the parts about the rather abstract sense of victimhood, which blinds us to real suffering, and the assumption that modern thinkers aren't «rational agents» who give arguments that need to be engaged, because they're characteristically neither wholly true nor wholly false.

So, too, his view that standards of truth will vary from one time and place to another, as well as his denial that there are available to any rational agent standards of truth sufficient to resolve fundamental moral, scientific, and metaphysical disputes in a definitive way.

Maritain held that action in the world — whether ethical action among individuals or political action among systems, institutions, and groups — is always action among existents, among real sinners and saints and all those in between, not among purely «rational agents.»

In a subtle analysis of rational action and the rational agent Pols5 explores the consequences of considering both the agent and the action as being «primary in an ontological sense.