Rationality and Freedom

By Amartya Sen. 2002

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Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment (2020, background): “According to this view—endorsed in various forms by Immanuel Kant, Derek Parfit, Amartya Sen, and others—rationality also requires us to select valid ends of the kind that can provide a reason for action (Kant and Schneewind, 2002; Parfit, 2011; Sen, 2004).”
Affordable loss: behavioral economic aspects of the plunge decision (2009, background): “Eminent scholars such as Sen (2003) have argued that rationality includes critical refl ection on one’s own values and preferences, not just maximizing choices based on them.”
The HDI 2010: new controversies, old critiques (2011, background): “While it does not argue that the core dimensions necessarily have primacy over additional dimensions, it does offer a distinction, borrowing on Sen (2002), between two types of freedoms that are valued by the human development approach: the freedoms which give us greater opportunities to achieve…”
Human geography and the institutions that underlie economic growth (2011, background): “Dependence and exploitation within communities is common where social distance, poor integration, and lack of intergroup mobility prevent members from having alternatives for personal development (Heller, 1996; Dasgupta, 2002; Sen, 2002).”
Reconciling Corporate Citizenship and Competitive Strategy: Insights from Economic Theory (2008, background): “The unrealistic nature of one or more of these assumptions usually underlie scholars criticisms of neoclassical theories of the firm and their macroeconomic and social implications (Daly, 1997; Sen, 2002).”
How bad is incoherence (2016, background): “Sen (2002) concluded that the idea of internal consistency of choice “is essentially confused, and there is no way of determining whether a choice function is consistent or not without referring to something external to choice behavior (such as objectives, values, or norms)” (pp. 121, 122).”
Society, community, and economic development (2005, background): “The formal precondition for the impossibility of social choice to disappear is that there exist information that would make possible interpersonal comparisons of social welfare judgements and that even partial comparisons can be helpful (Sen, 2002: 96).”
Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty (2008, background): “Preference reversals Consistent social values (e.g., don’t take the largest slice; don’t be the fi rst to cross a picket line) can create what look like preference reversals (Sen, 2002).”