Summary: “Epistemic rationality” is having beliefs that correspond to reality. “Instrumental rationality” is being able to actualize your values, or achieve your goals.
Irrationality, then, is having beliefs that do not correspond to reality, or being unable to achieve your goals. And to the extent that humans are hard-wired to be likely irrational, that certainly is a bug that should be fixed.
By that definition you might say that, but that still leaves the problem I tend to adress, that rationality (and by the supplied definition also irrationality) is suscribe to people and actions where thinking quite likely did not take place or was not the deciding factor of what action came about in the end.
It falsely divides human experience into ‘rational’ and ‘erroneously rational/irrational’. Thinkin is nog all that goes on among humans.
See What Do We Mean By “Rationality”.
Summary: “Epistemic rationality” is having beliefs that correspond to reality. “Instrumental rationality” is being able to actualize your values, or achieve your goals.
Irrationality, then, is having beliefs that do not correspond to reality, or being unable to achieve your goals. And to the extent that humans are hard-wired to be likely irrational, that certainly is a bug that should be fixed.
By that definition you might say that, but that still leaves the problem I tend to adress, that rationality (and by the supplied definition also irrationality) is suscribe to people and actions where thinking quite likely did not take place or was not the deciding factor of what action came about in the end. It falsely divides human experience into ‘rational’ and ‘erroneously rational/irrational’. Thinkin is nog all that goes on among humans.
Uncontroversial, as far as that goes.