Rationality: a social-epistemology perspective

Frontiers in Psychology

Sylvia Wenmackers¹ 

关键词: social epistemology;    rationality;    computer simulations;    opinion dynamics;    beliefs;    theory;    inconsistency;    probability;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00581

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Both in philosophy and in psychology, human rationality has traditionally been studied from an “individualistic” perspective. Recently, social epistemologists have drawn attention to the fact that epistemic interactions among agents also give rise to important questions concerning rationality. In previous work, we have used a formal model to assess the risk that a particular type of social-epistemic interactions lead agents with initially consistent belief states into inconsistent belief states. Here, we continue this work by investigating the dynamics to which these interactions may give rise in the population as a whole.

【 授权许可】

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