Rationality and Charity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10705673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Thagard (0000-0002-6594-4761, University of Michigan–Dearborn), Richard E Nisbett (University of Michigan) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 250-267 |
| Publication date | 1983-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/289108 |
| OpenAlex | W2055526176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 31 |
Quine and others have recommended principles of charity which discourage judgments of irrationality. Such principles have been proposed to govern translation, psychology, and economics. After comparing principles of charity of different degrees of severity, we argue that the stronger principles are likely to block understanding of human behavior and impede progress toward improving it. We support a moderate principle of charity which leaves room for empirically justified judgments of irrationality
Economics · Epistemology · Irrationality · Positive economics · Quine · Rationality · Sociology · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
Delusions, Acceptances, and Cognitive Feelings
The use of statistical heuristics in everyday inductive reasoning.
La autonomía de las tradiciones experimentales como problema epistemológico
The Dialectical Principle of Charity
Foregoing Charity in the Classroom
Deliberation through Misrepresentation? Inchoate Speech and the Division of Interpretive Labor
L’épistémologie de l’action et des croyances dans la philosophie évolutionniste de Herbert Spencer
In Defence of Radical Restrictionism
Experimental ordinary language philosophy
Frames, knowledge, and inference
Inappropriate stereotypical inferences? An adversarial collaboration in experimental ordinary language philosophy
Critical ordinary language philosophy
Les conditions de l'interprétation
The partisan trade-off bias
Abstract Expressionism and the Communication Problem
Theories of Rationality and Principles of Charity
Situational Analysis
Human inference
The emergence of probability
Can human irrationality be experimentally demonstrated?
Subjective probability
Bounded Rationality, Ambiguity, and the Engineering of Choice
Behavioral Decision Theory
Prospect Theory
On the psychology of prediction.
Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state.
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
Telling more than we can know
On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme
Models of Man
Justification and the Psychology of Human Reasoning
From the Descriptive to the Normative in Psychology and Logic
A Justification of Rationality
The Utility Analysis of Choices Involving Risk
Psychologism
Fact, fiction, and forecast
Insensitivity to sample bias
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
Alternative Logic in 'Primitive Thought
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2025 (43) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |