UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FILOSÓFICAS

From Ideal to Radical Embodied Rationality 

This crash course will consist of two sessions that aim to provide general knowledge regarding the concept of rationality in Twentieth-century philosophy and psychology.   

In particular, the first session will cover the so-called "Standard Picture of Rationality," as per the definition given by Edward Stein, the subsequent elaboration of the concepts of "Bounded Rationality" by Herbert Simon and "Ecological Rationality" by Peter Todd and Gerd Gigerenzer.   

The second session will focus on the concept of irrationality, in particular self-deception, and its conceptualization in the abovementioned views of rationality. It will also consider the possibility of extending the reflections on rationality in the perspective of 4E cognition (the view that sees cognitive processes and states as embodied, extended, embedded, and enacted). 

Optional reading list: 

• Arfini, S. and Magnani, L. (2021) ‘Embodied Irrationality? Knowledge Avoidance, Willful Ignorance, and the Paradox of Autonomy’, Frontiers in Psychology, 12, p. 769591.   
   
• Dumouchel, P. (2018). Rationality, Irrationality, Realism and the Good. In G. Bronner & F. Di Iorio (Eds.), The Mystery of Rationality: Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences (pp. 53–65). Springer International Publishing.   
   
• Maiese, Michelle. 2018. ‘Can the Mind Be Embodied, Enactive, Affective, and Extended?’ Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 17 (2): 343–61.   
   
• Petracca, E. and Grayot, J. (2023) ‘How can embodied cognition naturalize bounded rationality?’, Synthese, 201(4), p. 115.   
   
• Räikkä, Juha. 2014. ‘Self-Deception and Religious Beliefs’. In Social Justice in Practice: Questions in Ethics and Political Philosophy, edited by Juha Räikkä, 155–67. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Cham: Springer International Publishing.   
   
• Scherer, Klaus R. 2011. ‘On the Rationality of Emotions: Or, When Are Emotions Rational?’ Social Science Information 50 (3–4): 330–50.
   
• Wilson, Margaret. 2002. ‘Six Views of Embodied Cognition’. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 9 (4): 625–36.

_{Curso Corto "From Ideal to Radical Embodied Rationality"
Selene Arfini (Universidad de Pavia) 
27 de mayo (aula 5), 10:00-14:00 28 de mayo (aula 6), 10:00-14:00} 
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