REASON AND RADIONALITY

 INTRODUCTION



Reasoning and rationality have been the focus of enormous interdisciplinary attention, attracting interest from philosophers and others. These are the three projects in study of reason. Three projects that mention are descriptive, normative and evaluative projects. The descriptive project is typically pursued by psychologists, though anthropologists and computer scientists have also made important contributions - aims to characterize how people actually go about the business of reasoning and to discover the psychological mechanisms and processes that underlie the patterns of reasoning that are observed. The normative project is not concerned with how people actually justify how they should be justified. It is the discovery of rules or principles that define what is right or rational. The evaluation project aims to determine the extent to which human reason complies with appropriate ethical standards.

Overconfidence



One of the most detailed and most disturbing of the phenomena explored by psychologists interested inrationality and judgment is the extent to which people have faith in the answers they give to real questions -questions. In a test that uses relatively difficult questions, it is common to find that in cases where the subjects are said to be 100% reliable, only 80% of their answers are correct; In cases where they claim that they are 90% reliable, only 70% of their answers are correct. Lessons that warn people that they are often self-confident do not have a significant effect, nor do they give them money as a reward for accuracy. Moreover, this phenomenon has been demonstrated among a wide variety of course people, including graduate students, physicians and CIA researchers.

Performance


Aims

The core aims of performance are: 

  • To nurture and develop the emerging field of Performance Philosophy internationally;
  • To facilitate the exchange of ideas and practices related to Performance Philosophy between international researchers including students, emerging scholars, established scholars and practitioners.

 

Activities

The core activities of performance are: 

  • To establish and maintain an international network of Performance Philosophy researchers 
  • To facilitate communication in the field of Performance Philosophy through a website and mailing list
  • To create and maintain a high-quality peer-reviewed journal with an esteemed publisher and to use the journal as a platform to showcase the best original research in the field of Performance Philosophy, including practice-based research
  • To initiate and develop a high-quality book series with an esteemed publisher and to publish monographs and edited collections that make an original and important contributions to the field of Performance Philosophy
  • To host and to support network members to host high-quality research events on Performance Philosophy, such as symposia, conference, festivals, seminars, and summer schools. 

 

Structure

Performance is structured as a network, made up of:

  • self-organizing research groups, and
  • a committee of core convenors.

The research groups within the network can either be geographic or institution based (eg. the Brown group) and/or thematic or based on the work of a particular performance philosopher (eg. the Deleuze and Performance group). Any member or group of members can apply to create a new research group via the website.

The role of the convenors is to oversee the functioning of the network as a whole and to lead on the development of Performance Philosophy projects such as the website, journal, book series and events. Nominations for new convenors will be invited from the membership after 2 years (in 2014).

 

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