Meta-rationality: Outline
This is the Table of Contents for Part Four of my meta-rationality book. Part Four is the part that is actually about meta-rationality!
Parts One through Three are background that will be helpful, but maybe not absolutely necessary, for reading Part Four. You might want to start reading the book at the beginning, instead of here.
I am publishing draft sections of Part Four as newsletter posts. This page outlines the whole Part; the sections I’ve posted drafts of are underlined and linked.
Meta-rationality illustrated: software architecting
Meta-rational epistemology
Meta-rational judgement
Knowledge and understanding
Varieties of truth
Coping, deciding, and transmuting
Aspects of meta-rational activity
Locating a proto-Problem
Getting an ontology and creating Problems
Evaluating and selecting rational systems
Combining multiple systems
Creating rational systems
Limiting rationality to its limits
Engineering circumrational supports
System maintenance
Reflection on purposes
Case study: reinventing copier repair
Developing meta-rationality
A research agenda