CFP: Balkan Journal of Philosophy - Facets of rationality: Reasoning, communication, and decision-making

Human actions in all their appearances are evaluated and assessed as
rational or irrational. Subject to evaluation are everyday thinking and
decision-making, scientific research, economic and political behavior,
even love-affaires and sport competitions, as well as communication and
speech acts of all kinds. Rationality is a normative concept in the sense
that it is supposed to provide a standard or criteria to evaluate a piece
of reasoning or an instance of decision-making. Why is this important?
Using these criteria we are able to evaluate, control and regulate our own
and others actions, thinking and decision-making.

The areas to be covered in the 2015 issue of the journal include the
following sub-topics:
a)      Rationality, reasoning and intuitions;
b)      Rational bases of cognition, communication and argumentation;
c)      Rationality and pragmatic interpretation of speech acts;
d)      Rational agents, institutions and power distribution (game-
theoretic modeling);
e)      Empirical work on rationality in cognitive science and its
philosophical relevance

Through this issue we hope to contribute to the following agenda:
a)      To enhance the understanding of the rational foundations of
reasoning (acquisition and use of basic logical and mathematical concepts;
understanding, possession conditions and use of basic logical rules),
b)      To offer an account of rationality demands in communication,
particularly in argumentation process,
c)      To explain the role of rationality in the pragmatic interpretation
of speech acts. Pragmatic, as opposed to semantic which is concerned with
language per se, is concerned with linguistic human actions. As in any
other form of action, there is a reason why one linguistically does what
she does. Pragmatic interpretation is possible only if we presuppose that
the agent is rational
d)      To determine the relation between individual rationality and the
evolution of social institutions.

You are kindly invited to submit a paper on any of these topics.
Papers should be between 6000 and 8000 words (including a short abstract
of about 150 words and a brief list of key words). Please, submit your
papers to the e-mail address of the journal:
[email protected]

The deadline for receiving manuscripts is the end of November 2014 but
earlier submissions would be appreciated.  This special issue will appear
in 2015.