A survey was carried out among mature adult students and their instructors involved in a British university’s online Master’s degrees in Computing/IT. All were experienced in engaging in asynchronous online discussions. They were asked about the effectiveness of online discussions (the...

Orthodox decision theory gives no advice to agents who hold two goods to be incommensurate in value because such agents will have incomplete preferences. According to standard treatments, rationality requires complete preferences, so such agents are irrational. Experience shows, however, that...

In this contribution I question the expression “economical philosophy” as an association of opposed terms which cannot be defined without referring to each other beforehand. Because of this original intertwining of philosophy and economics, philosophical reason is as bounded as economical...