인간 조건 하에서의 합리성 : 진화, 공감, 제도

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This paper investigates the necessity for expanding standard conception of rationality in economics, and some fruitful directions to do it, helped by recent empirical and theoretical findings of evolutionary biology, psychology, philosophy of science, ethics, and STS(Science and Technology Studies). The call for the needed expan- sion can be found in the recognition that we, human beings, are the product of natural evolutionary process which developed in us certain specific and rather unique psychological makeup and mechanisms. The conventional understanding of economic rationality is too narrow and inadequate to accommodate the consequences of this empirical fact. Therefore, the expanded conception of rationality should reflect this ‘human conditions’, that is our sympathy capability has been shaped by our evolutionary past, and constrained by a number of institutions we developed in our society. We should seek the foundation of the ‘normativity’ of the expanded rationlity not in any metaphysical principles, but rather in the ontological possibility of improving these ‘human conditions’ through better institutions and customs.

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