Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

9/1/1993 - 8/31/1996

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$175,000.00 (approved)
$119,998.26 (awarded)


The Reassessment of Reason: Paradigm Shifts in the Concept of Individual and Social Rationality

FAIN: RO-22582-93

Arizona Board of Regents (Tucson, AZ 85721-0073)
Robert Cummins (Project Director: October 1992 to January 1997)

To support a critique of current philosophical assumptions about the nature and functions of rationality in human existence and an attempt to construct a theory of rationality that is defensible and useful to the social sciences.