Talk:Rational agent

Artificial intelligence? Philosophy? Economics?

This article uses a definition of "rational agent" that is drawn from the artificial intelligence literature, namely:

• Russell, Stuart J.; Norvig, Peter (2003), Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd ed.), Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-790395-2, chpt. 2

However, it is linked to mostly from philosophy and economics. It seems to me that we need an article that defines "rational agent" based the literature of those fields. I believe that Russell and Norvig are using the term in an idiosyncratic way: they use it as better name for what AI researchers call an "intelligent agent". This is misleading to the reader.

Since I don't have sources for philosophy or economics (or time to look for them), I will survey the links that point here and see if they can't be pointed somewhere closer to the point. Once orphaned, I can redirect this article somewhere else. The material in this article (what little there is), can be merged into the article intelligent agent.

Any objection to this plan? ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 17:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)