It is natural for human beings to look for ways and means of satisfying their basic human drives. People in hunter- gatherer societies killed animals and collected whatever food they could find in the ...

Rational artificial intelligence sounds simple on paper: build systems that make sensible decisions based on goals, evidence, ...

Rationality is a human endowment that we deploy as needed. It fights our battle of self-interest and other-regarding interest on the intellectual plane. We could deploy it instrumentally to serve our ...

Humans cannot survive without evidence and reason. If you aim to live, then on seeing a cobra you better recognise the evidence that it is venomous and run for your life! Instrumental rationality is a ...

The smart phone has become like a valet, arranging your life in terms that make it liveable. The smart phone is an object that does your thinking for you. You use its calculator to do what you used to ...

Standard IQ tests are problematic on many levels — not least, because they do very little to tell us about the quality of our thinking. Looking to overcome this oversight, psychologist Keith Stanovich ...

A Senior Programmes Officer at the Center for Democratic Development-Ghana (CDD-Ghana), Michael Augustus Akagbor, is urging Parliament to adopt the concept of instrumental rationality in the ...