scholarly journals Thalidomide, A Rational Agent for Treatment of Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis

2019 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J Zinn ◽  
Olive Eckstein ◽  
Mary L Olsen ◽  
Carl E Allen ◽  
Kenneth L McClain
Keyword(s):  
Rational Agent ◽  
Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis

The Inner Rational Agent

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Sugden
Keyword(s):  
Human Agency ◽  
Welfare Economics ◽  
Rational Agent ◽  
Empirical Content ◽  
Normative Economics ◽  
Normative Analysis ◽  
True Preference ◽  
Implicit Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Psychological Foundation

Chapter 4 reviews ‘behavioural welfare economics’—the approach to normative analysis that is favoured by most behavioural economists. This approach assumes that people have context-independent ‘true’ or ‘latent’ preferences which, because of psychologically-induced errors, are not always revealed in actual choices. Behavioural welfare economics aims to reconstruct latent preferences by identifying and removing the effects of error on decisions, and to design policies to satisfy those preferences. Its implicit model of human agency is of an ‘inner rational agent’ that interacts with the world through an imperfect psychological ‘shell’. I argue that there is no satisfactory evidence to support this model, and no credible psychological foundation for it. Since the concept of true preference has no empirical content, the idea that such preferences can be reconstructed is a mirage. Normative economics needs to be more radical in giving up rationality assumptions.

scholarly journals Targetable driver mutations in multicentric reticulohistiocytosis

Haematologica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. e61-e64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norihiro Murakami ◽  
Tomohisa Sakai ◽  
Eisuke Arai ◽  
Hideki Muramatsu ◽  
Daisuke Ichikawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Driver Mutations ◽  
Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis

Truth and Consequences: When Is It Rational to Accept Falsehoods?

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 147-169
Author(s):  
Taner Edis ◽  
Maarten Boudry
Keyword(s):  
Rational Agent ◽  
False Beliefs ◽  
Reflective Awareness ◽  
Collective Beliefs

AbstractJudgments of the rationality of beliefs must take the costs of acquiring and possessing beliefs into consideration. In that case, certain false beliefs, especially those that are associated with the benefits of a cohesive community, can be seen to be useful for an agent and perhaps instrumentally rational to hold. A distinction should be made between excusable misbeliefs, which a rational agent should tolerate, and misbeliefs that are defensible in their own right because they confer benefits on the agent. Likely candidates for such misbeliefs are to be found in the realm of nationalism and religion, where the possession costs of true beliefs are high, and where collective beliefs in falsehoods may allow for a cohesive community. We discuss the paradoxes of reflective awareness involved in the idea of deliberately embracing falsehoods. More rigorous, fully reflective concepts of rationality would still disallow false beliefs, but such demanding versions of rationality would commit agents to pay large costs, thereby weakening the motivation for acquiring true beliefs.

scholarly journals A Case with Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis Successfully Treated with Infliximab.

2011 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiko Chiba ◽  
Aya Oda ◽  
Tomomi Tsutsumi ◽  
Hiroki Yabe ◽  
Yurika Kamiya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis

scholarly journals Ultraviolet Light-induced Köbner Phenomenon Contributes to the Development of Skin Eruptions in Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis

2011 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Taniguchi ◽  
Y Asano ◽  
A Okada ◽  
M Sugaya ◽  
S Sato
Keyword(s):  
Ultraviolet Light ◽  
Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis

scholarly journals Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis: A case report with review

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-305
Author(s):  
Vidya Kuntoji ◽  
Chandramohan Kudligi ◽  
Pradeep Vittal Bhagwat ◽  
Soumyashree Krishna ◽  
Ravi. M. Rathod ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis
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