Rational Solutions: Criteria, Models, Paradoxes.

Abstract

Any human activity can be easily presented as a chain of preparing, making and implementing decisions. The choice of a decision is usually based on a certain model of rational behavior, which highlights the question of what actions can be considered rational. The paper views the problems of decision-making in the interdisciplinary context. It presents the author’s methodological position that risk is always related to the agent and decisions that he or she makes. The author analyses paradoxes of formalized models of decision-making in the conditions of risk and shows the importance of procedural rationality for decision preparation and making.