Standards Of Philosophical Rationality

Author : Zbigniew Drozdowicz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643903884

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Standards of Philosophical Rationality by Zbigniew Drozdowicz Pdf

This book focuses on the standards of philosophical rationality, corresponding to a philosophy that aspires to be more than the wisdom that stems from and addresses everyday human needs. It is a search for standards that would, as it were, show the way to philosophical wisdom for anyone who is willing and able to assess it. One of the problems is that people have had a different understanding of the basic concept of rationality, which is the rationale. (Series: Development in Humanities - Vol. 1)

Author : Ralph Wedgwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198802693

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The Value of Rationality by Ralph Wedgwood Pdf

Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of what it is for states of mind and processes of thought to count as rational. Whether you are thinking rationally depends purely on what is going on in your mind, but rational thinking is a means to the goal of getting things right in your thinking, by believing the truth or making good choices.

Author : Maria Cristina Amoretti,Nicla Vassallo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110325867

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Reason and Rationality by Maria Cristina Amoretti,Nicla Vassallo Pdf

Reason and rationality represent crucial elements of the self-image of human beings and have unquestionably been among the most debated issues in Western philosophy, dating from ancient Greece, through the Middle Ages, and to the present day. Many words and thoughts have already been spent trying to define the nature and standards of reason and rationality, what they could or ought to be, and under what conditions something can be said to be rational. This volume focuses instead on the relationships of reason and rationality to some relevant specific topics, i.e., science, knowledge, gender, politics, ethics, religion, aesthetics, language, logic, and metaphysics, trying to uncover and clarify both the connections and differences in their various characterisations and uses.

Author : Alfred R. Mele,Piers Rawling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198033249

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The Oxford Handbook of Rationality by Alfred R. Mele,Piers Rawling Pdf

Rationality has long been a central topic in philosophy, crossing standard divisions and categories. It continues to attract much attention in published research and teaching by philosophers as well as scholars in other disciplines, including economics, psychology, and law. The Oxford Handbook of Rationality is an indispensable reference to the current state of play in this vital and interdisciplinary area of study. Twenty-two newly commissioned chapters by a roster of distinguished philosophers provide an overview of the prominent views on rationality, with each author also developing a unique and distinctive argument.

Author : Harold I. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Rationalism
ISBN : UCBK:C022164447

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Rationality by Harold I. Brown Pdf

Professor Brown describes and criticises the major classical model of rationality and offers a new model of this central concept in the history of philosophy and of science.

Author : José Luis Bermúdez,Alan Millar (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199256837

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Reason and Nature by José Luis Bermúdez,Alan Millar (Ph. D.) Pdf

In a series of essays nine philosophers and two psychologists address three main themes: the status of norms of rationality; the precise form taken by them; and the role of norms in belief and actions.

Author : Edward Stein
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191584725

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Without Good Reason by Edward Stein Pdf

Are humans rational? Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational—we make significant and consistent errors in logical reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, similarity judgements, and risk-assessment, to name a few areas. But can these experiments establish human irrationality, or is it a conceptual truth that humans must be rational, as various philosophers have argued? In this book, Edward Stein offers a clear critical account of this debate about rationality in philosophy and cognitive science. He discusses concepts of rationality—the pictures of rationality that the debate centres on—and assesses the empirical evidence used to argue that humans are irrational. He concludes that the question of human rationality must be answered not conceptually but empirically, using the full resources of an advanced cognitive science. Furthermore, he extends this conclusion to argue that empirical considerations are also relevant to the theory of knowledge—in other words, that epistemology should be naturalized.

Author : Julian Nida-Rumelin,W. Spohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401596174

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Rationality, Rules, and Structure by Julian Nida-Rumelin,W. Spohn Pdf

Author : J. Agassi,I.C. Jarvie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400934917

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Rationality: The Critical View by J. Agassi,I.C. Jarvie Pdf

In our papers on the rationality of magic, we distinghuished, for purposes of analysis, three levels of rationality. First and lowest (rationalitYl) the goal directed action of an agent with given aims and circumstances, where among his circumstances we included his knowledge and opinions. On this level the magician's treatment of illness by incantation is as rational as any traditional doctor's blood-letting or any modern one's use of anti-biotics. At the second level (rationalitY2) we add the element of rational thinking or thinking which obeys some set of explicit rules, a level which is not found in magic in general, though it is sometimes given to specific details of magical thinking within the magical thought-system. It was the late Sir Edward E. Evans-Pritchard who observed that when considering magic in detail the magician may be as consistent or critical as anyone else; but when considering magic in general, or any system of thought in general, the magician could not be critical or even comprehend the criticism. Evans-Pritchard went even further: he was sceptical as to whether it could be done in a truly consistent manner: one cannot be critical of one's own system, he thought. On this level (rationalitY2) of discussion we have explained (earlier) why we prefer to wed Evans Pritchard's view of the magician's capacity for piece-meal rationality to Sir James Frazer's view that magic in general is pseudo-rational because it lacks standards of rational thinking.

Author : Zbigniew Drozdowicz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643903761

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Rationality Standards of Social Life by Zbigniew Drozdowicz Pdf

The standards of rationality are treated in this book as certain regulators of social life. They are compared to the rudders of the great vessels constituted by social communities. The diversity exhibited by those standards do not only result from the differences of time and space of their implementation, but also from the differences in the sets of ideas put forward by the leading social thinkers accompanied by the different characteristics of their designated audiences. (Series: Development in Humanities - Vol. 7)

Author : Howard Sankey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429776113

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Rationality, Relativism and Incommensurability by Howard Sankey Pdf

First published in 1997, this volume brings together a series of essays on the philosophy of science and responds to the "crisis of rationality" which evolved from the denial of both a stable methodology and a common language for science. Howard Sankey holds that important insights about scientific methodology and rationality may be gleaned from the historical approach, from which the existence of profound conceptual change in science, as well as the absence of a neutral observation language, are important findings. Half of Sankey’s essays concentrate specifically on the thesis that alternative scientific theories are incommensurable due to semantic differences between the vocabulary in which they are expressed. Several others seek to derive a new way of thinking about scientific rationality from the historical critique of the idea of a fixed scientific method. Still others demonstrate how some seemingly relativistic themes of the historical approach may be embraced in a non-relativistic manner within the context of a pluralistic and naturalistic theory of scientific methodology and rationality.

Author : Benjamin Kiesewetter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192528490

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The Normativity of Rationality by Benjamin Kiesewetter Pdf

Sometimes our intentions and beliefs exhibit a structure that proves us to be irrational. The Normativity of Rationality is concerned with the question of whether we ought to avoid such irrationality. Benjamin Kiesewetter defends the normativity of rationality by presenting a new solution to the problems that arise from the common assumption that we ought to be rational. The argument touches upon many other topics in the theory of normativity, such as the form and the content of rational requirements, the preconditions of criticism, and the function of reasons in deliberation and advice. Drawing on an extensive and careful assessment of the problems discussed in the literature, Kiesewetter provides a detailed defence of a reason-response conception of rationality, a novel, evidence-relative account of reasons, and an explanation of structural irrationality in terms of these accounts.

Author : Joseph Grünfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040377512

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Changing Rational Standards by Joseph Grünfeld Pdf

Author : Jonas Nilsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 9171919473

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Rationality in Inquiry by Jonas Nilsson Pdf

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015014212818

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Rationality by Nicholas Rescher Pdf

Contending that only a normative theory of rationality can be adequate to the complexities of the subject, this book explains and defends the view that rationality consists of the intelligent pursuit of appropriate objectives. Rescher considers the mechanics, rationale, and rewards of reason, and argues that social scientists who want to present a theory of rationality while avoiding the vexing complexities of normative deliberations must amend their perspective of the rational enterprise.