I don’t know if this came up or will come up, but if ” rationality is simply making the best decision to achieve one’s goals, whatever they may be” what is the discipline that helps us check the goals we’re optimizing for are the right ones?
To achieve your goals you’re going to want to identify and define them first. Assuming one has inadequate knowledge of one’s goals, a rational decision would be to clarify that knowledge to a point, whatever those goals happen to be.
I don’t know if this came up or will come up, but if ” rationality is simply making the best decision to achieve one’s goals, whatever they may be” what is the discipline that helps us check the goals we’re optimizing for are the right ones?
To achieve your goals you’re going to want to identify and define them first. Assuming one has inadequate knowledge of one’s goals, a rational decision would be to clarify that knowledge to a point, whatever those goals happen to be.
That would be the instrumental rationality.
That would be the epistemic one. According to the OP, both were discussed: