ABSTRACT
We shall look in section A3 at the account commonly given by social theorists of individual rationality in action and belief, since their accounts of the rationality of societies are clearly modelled on it. In section B we look first at social rationality concepts reducible in one way or another to individual rationality, and then at others that seem to postulate a social agent analogous to the individual agent. In section C we shall consider a view which rejects the standard account of individual rationality in ways important
for its application to institutions and societies. Finally, in section D, we consider possible reasons for thinking that individual rationality may be inconsistent with the rationality of societies or institutions, or that rational institutions may frustrate development of individual rationality.
