Abstract
This analysis explains why the currently instituted value-sets of “rationality” and “scientific method” select for unforeseen consequences of economic, social and ecological system collapse. Laying bare the era's unifying paradigm of “rational choice” across theory (e.g., game theory, contractarianism, prisoner's dilemma) and practice (global business, geostrategic analysis, armed war and mass-media sport), the analysis exposes the systematic disconnection of rationality and its lead vector of scientific method from the needs and capacities of life-systems. Only if rational and scientific standards are grounded in life-enabling purpose and means consistent with it, the argument shows, can they be made coherent with life support systems through generational time.
DOI
101163/187219108X388707
Recommended Citation
McMurtry.
2009.
"Beyond Collapse: Reclaiming Rationality and Scientific Method from the Global Disorder."
Societies Without Borders
4 (1):
73-93.
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/vol4/iss1/6