{"id":13555,"date":"2015-03-07T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T15:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/?p=13555"},"modified":"2015-03-07T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T15:28:39","slug":"rational-action-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2015\/03\/07\/rational-action-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Rational Action: The Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A game of chess in a tourist sleeper, c. 1906. Photograph by George R. Lawrence Co. Source: Library of Congress.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re about a month away from the debut of my book,\u00a0Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940\u20131960<\/em><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0Anyone who has written an academic book knows that this is a very exciting thing for the author, because publishing the book can be almost as long and arduous a process as researching and writing the thing. So, I’m going to be talking about the twentieth century a lot more here.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, I’ve also created a new\u00a0Rational Action\u00a0<\/em>blog<\/a><\/span>, which will both expand on things found in my book, as well as develop\u00a0the discussion well beyond the history of the specific fields I concentrate on in the book.\u00a0My hope is that, by focusing on the historical problem of rationality,\u00a0as manifested in both theory and practice, I can attract a cross-disciplinary audience interested in everything from optimization algorithms to philosophy of mind. The object will be to create a space where we can do free-form explorations of\u00a0the affinities between such topics without conflating them into a single “contested history of rationality,” as seems to be the historiographical fashion these days.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think it will be more useful to create a separate blog, rather than a new post series here, because I don’t want the historiographical excursions that I favor here to alienate readers interested solely in the new blog’s focus. I anticipate there will be some cross-posting, or possibly even two different versions of the same post appearing in each location. In fact, there are a number of archived posts here that I already want to adapt to the new forum.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, please check out the new blog, and follow me on Twitter<\/a><\/span> to know when I put up a new post either there or here. Also, for American customers, Amazon is offering a discount on pre-orders of my reasonably-priced-but-not-altogether-inexpensive book<\/a><\/span>, and the size of the discount\u00a0appears to be diminishing as we get closer to release—just saying.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re about a month away from the debut of my book,\u00a0Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940\u20131960.\u00a0Anyone who has written an academic book knows that this is a very exciting thing for the author, because publishing the book can be almost as long and arduous a process as researching and writing<\/p>\n

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