Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: vol. 66, no. 3, May...

The Review of Metaphysics;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......sorts. Epistemic Rationality as Instrumental Rationality: A Critique, THOMAS KELLY In this...between epistemic rationality and instrumental rationality, and he attempts to delineate...rationality is simply a species of instrumental rationality, namely, instrumental ...

Nationalism within reason.(Rethinking Nationalism)

The Australian Journal of Politics and History;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......used to express. These include the non-moral idea of instrumental rationality , which is concerned with discovering the most efficient...relations in any complex society. Judgements based on instrumental rationality and normative reason are quite distinct, although I...

Making Adorno's ethics and politics explicit.(Adorno: Disenchantment and...

Social Theory and Practice;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......practical import of his critiques of instrumental rationality becomes obvious when he applies...nexus of media, advertisement, and instrumental rationality--has become exponentially more...provides the ethical counterpoint to instrumental rationality that deconstruction cannot. In...

Institutions and economic theory.

American Economist;  March 22, 1992 ;     700+ words ......micro-economics. What it abandons is instrumental rationality - the assumption of neo-classical...are unnecessary in a world of instrumental rationality; ideas and ideologies don't matter...is with a modification of the instrumental rationality assumption. We are still a long...

The Groundless Normativity of Instrumental Rationality. (Journal Of...

The Review of Metaphysics;  March 1, 2001 ;     119 words ...The Groundless Normativity of Instrumental Rationality, DONALD C. HUBIN Neo-Humean instrumentalist theories of reasons for acting have been presented with a dilemma: either they are...

Ends.

Social Theory and Practice;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......theoretical heirs) believe that instrumental rationality is not all there is to practical...provide the motivating force for instrumental rationality, and reason has nothing to say...of the very notion that gives instrumental rationality its point. (9) The upshot of my...

Habermas and his Others *.(Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Theory:...

Polity;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......rationality as such has been reduced to instrumental rationality thus excluding moral and ethical...increasing subjection of life to instrumental rationality made Adorno and Horkheimer critical...distinguishing communicative from instrumental rationality makes it possible to reclaim ...

Structure and anti-structure in Luciano Bianciardi's Aprire il...

Italian Culture;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......injecting a libidinal domain illustrative of a negation of instrumental rationality (Bertens 2002). The clash between these two diametrically...between the world of predetermined progress built on instrumental rationality (the city), and a performative view of a secular utopia...

Where does chemistry fit?(Sustainable Development and Education)(Viewpoint...

Chemistry International;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......What is a good life (in a moral sense)? In this context they determined substantial and instrumental rationality. Instrumental rationality involved the best ways to realize an objective; we presently would call this effectiveness...

THE PARADOX OF BUREAUCRATIC RISK CONTROL.

Risk Management;  February 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......of Western society created an increase of instrumental rationality and, consequently, a relative growth of complexity...Notably, Mannheim shows that this rise of instrumental rationality also leads to a decrease of substantial rationality...

Two theories of modernity.

The Hastings Center Report;  March 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......the development of a secular outlook, or the rise of instrumental rationality, or an ever-clearer distinction between fact-finding...come to see that scientific thinking is valid, that instrumental rationality pays off, that religious beliefs involve unwarranted...

Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial...

Administrative Science Quarterly;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the working class, created a new discourse based on instrumental rationality that became not only the underpinning ideology of management...The ideology of managerial rationality is built from instrumental rationality, which reduces human action to a set of cause-and-effect...

Accounting systems and decision-making in the mid-Victorian period: the...

Business History;  July 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......profit-maximising model with its key assumption of instrumental rationality. The issue of business decision-making in reality is...instrumental view of rationality which underlies it. The instrumental rationality assumption, with its concentration on the ends rather...

Pacification or contestation? The role of discourse in agricultural policy

Rural Sociology;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......particular policy scenario instrumental rationality won out over other...constrained into making the instrumentally rational decision. Yet, he also...rationalities and against instrumentally rational decisions. He shows...eventually chose the instrumentally rational ...

Performance measures and the rationalization of organizations.

Organization Studies;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......rationalization as the increasing dominance of a means-end instrumental rationality. The article illustrates how an initial enthusiasm...rationalization, reasoned justification, communicative action, instrumental rationality, New Public Management Introduction Performance measurement...