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Freedom and Rationality
Author(s) -
VOLLMER FRED
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal for the theory of social behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5914
pISSN - 0021-8308
DOI - 10.1111/j.0021-8308.2004.00241.x
Subject(s) - rationality , action (physics) , ecological rationality , connection (principal bundle) , epistemology , rational analysis , rational agent , sociology , mathematical economics , economics , psychology , philosophy , mathematics , cognition , neoclassical economics , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
The question discussed in the present paper is whether actions that are free can be thought of as rational. According to one view, no free action could be rational. According to another, all free actions must be rational. I argue that both these positions are false and that there is no necessary connection between freedom and rationality. Some free actions are rational, others are not.