179. Rationality Without Justification | THUNK
Channel: THUNK
Date: 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 doesn’t actually work like that?

-Links for the Curious-

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