While it is reasonable to conclude that a satire of
hyperrationality already implicitly targets the authority of scientific discourse in society at large, this article also addresses authority's prejudicial influence on the establishment of scientific legitimacy within research communities.
poem combats
hyperrationality by implying that a lack of comprehension
The
hyperrationality assumption means that individuals with Social Security accounts or who own shares in businesses take fully into account the saving carried out in their name when they make their decisions about how much of their personal income they will save.
In the view of the three thinkers under discussion, human beings are not repositories of
hyperrationality.
First, as I have been at some pain to emphasize, one should avoid the postulate of
hyperrationality.
The ostensible
hyperrationality of bond traders, for instance, relies on a set of cognitive biases to edit continuous information flows from electronic, print, and interpersonal sources (pp.
Rejecting the
hyperrationality assumption of individuals preferred by many economists, Williamson draws on the work of March and Simon (1958) in adopting a bounded rationality view of human decision-making processes.
Indeed, it was the scientific
hyperrationality of someone like Szilard that Roald Hoffman had in mind when he wrote "Why Scientists Shouldn't Run the World" (Issues, Winter 1990-91).
Sass explores the
hyperrationality of modern philosophical and artistic self-reflexiveness in its affinities with schizophrenia (disavowing any attempt at influence or causality).
In light of a more empirical world view, we now regard sight, not as the Elizabethans did--as the most nearly angelic sense in the hierarchy of senses--but as the
hyperrationality of the hyperpredator.
Taking the Cappadocian trinitarian theology as a benchmark we can measure subsequent Eastern and Western theological developments, their alleged irrationality and
hyperrationality.
The fact that Young is able to recover rational equilibria from such limited actors is reassuring and perhaps ironically justifies the mainstream tradition assuming
hyperrationality.
