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RATIONAL DECISION-MAKING IN A COMPLEX WORLD: TOWARDS AN INSTRUMENTAL, YET EMBODIED, ACCOUNT(pages 381-404)

Ragnar VAN DER MERWE ABSTRACT: Prima facie, we make successful decisions as we act on and intervene in the world day-to-day. Epistemologists are often concerned with whether rationality is involved in such decision-making practices, and, if so, to what degree. Some, particularly in the post-structuralist tradition, argue that successful decision-making occurs via an existential leap into the unknown rather than …

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