… Theories of rational decision-making are pervasive in many … to tackle: they give us answers
to the questions of how people … of criticisms of RPT depends upon a specific conception of …

… view provided a microlevel conception of rational decision-making. … is rationality on Laudan’s
conception, as it was on Lakatos’s. … Laudan’s answer was that we can whiggishly measure …

… I argue in this article that an aspect of Imre Lakatos’s … devoted to updating Lakatos’s
programme to answer the needs … theories to be empirically successful is simply false’ (Laudan …

… For instance, if someone asks why I believe q, I could reply … given (of Laudan’s pre-analytic
intuitions of rationality) and … of the Copernican model was a rational choice even before 1616. …

… - the capacity to solve puzzles, answer problems, broaden our … The second kind of measure
considered by Laudan is the … First, can we still talk about rational choices when next to the …

… critical understanding of the relevant primary and the secondary sources. The study finds out
that Lakatos in his … Lakatos in reaction to the controversy in the two approache, attempted to …

… that either Lakatos or Laudan have supplied affective criteria for determining theoretical …
Indeed, if Lakatos’s critics are correct, and few if any theories accommodate all of their rivals…

… or Laudan, that extrapolate this conception of rationality to … , the claims from rational choice
theory would reject any type of … Affective reactions are something that we cannot escape from…

… -oriented appraisal of rational choice theories in political science. … do not use RCTs to answer
empirical questions or, more … tradition in the sense of Larry Laudan. That way, RCTs would …

… Imre Lakatos, for, at least according to Laudan, both Kuhn and … , Laudan claims that a
scientist makes a rational choice … Laudan may well respond that there was a difference in the …