Meta-rationality

Ask: how and why to use it; and whether some other approach to uncertainty would be better.

Learning, propagating, and getting credit for meta-rationality

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!

A meta-rational organization may appear chaotic (although productive and innovative), until you notice how smoothly routine rational work gets done.

It's natural to react to meta-rationalism with skepticism or hostility initially. You may come to delight in it.

Probability theory is sometimes called a complete theory of rationality, on the mistaken belief it generalizes logic. I explain why this is wrong.

A bridge from systematic rationality to fluid meta-rational understanding may be necessary to prevent civilizational collapse.

A first lesson in meta-rationality, or stage 5 cognition, using Bongard problems as a laboratory.

"The map is not the territory"-what is it then? How do rational models actually work?

The epistemological categories-truth, belief, inference-are richer, more complex, diverse, and nebulous than rationalism supposes.