Ciertas ideas erróneas que solemos asociar con el fenómeno de la libertad son aquí objeto de una crítica que se propone mostrar en qué consiste realmente la libertad de los seres humanos.

Human beings choose rationally according to their own belief systems. Without taking into consideration these belief systems, which do not only contain theoretical assumptions about reality but also practical convictions, emotions, evaluations and preferences, it is not possible to understand how and why they choose and decide as they choose and decide under uncertainty. Belief systems are of great utility for beings whose form of rationality is a limited and bounded one. Due to the qualitative structure of belief systems, the (...) mathematical models develo-ped in the fields of game theory and rational choice theory are not always the adequate instrument to conceptualize them. (shrink)