The aim of this article is to expound the subjectivist position on the concept of ‘rationality.’ To begin, we review the longstanding and still ongoing debate in philosophy over the differences (or not) between the natural and social sciences. While positivism, which supposes no difference between the sciences, has been the tradition whence the economic rationality construct (homo economicus and its modern variants) has derived, a longstanding interpretivist tradition holds that social science is innately distinct from, and should be studied differently than, the natural sciences. From this interpretivist vantage, we assess and critique the positivist conception of rationality and put forth a subjectivist account of rationality as a process in its stead. Rationality here emerges as an intentional process of betterment over time. Because entrepreneurship is definitionally such a process, we explore the implications of this process rationality for entrepreneurial action theory.

本文旨在阐述主观主义对“理性”概念的立场。首先，我们回顾哲学中关于自然科学和社会科学之间差异（或不差异）的长期且仍在进行的辩论。而假设科学之间没有区别的实证主义一直是经济理性建构的传统（homoeconomicus及其现代变体）已经衍生出，一个长期的解释主义传统认为，社会科学与自然科学本质上是不同的，并且应该以不同于自然科学的方式进行研究。从这个解释主义的角度，我们评估和批判了实证主义的理性概念，并提出了一种主观主义的将理性描述为一个过程的过程。这里的理性是随着时间的推移而有意改善的过程。因为创业在定义上就是这样一个过程，我们探讨了这个过程合理性对创业行动理论的影响。