Brute Rationality
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Brute Rationality
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Author : Joshua Gert
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-08-19
Brute Rationality written by Joshua Gert and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-19 with Philosophy categories.
This book presents an account of normative practical reasons and the way in which they contribute to the rationality of action. Rather than simply 'counting in favour of' actions, normative reasons play two logically distinct roles: requiring action and justifying action. The distinction between these two roles explains why some reasons do not seem relevant to the rational status of an action unless the agent cares about them, while other reasons retain all their force regardless of the agent's attitude. It also explains why the class of rationally permissible action is wide enough to contain not only all morally required action, but also much selfish and immoral action. The book will appeal to a range of readers interested in practical reason in particular, and moral theory more generally.
An Essay On The Rationality Of Brutes
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Author : David Henry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1752
An Essay On The Rationality Of Brutes written by David Henry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1752 with English fiction categories.
The Edge Of Reason
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Author : Julian Baggini
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-22
The Edge Of Reason written by Julian Baggini and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-22 with Philosophy categories.
An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving—or even discussing—divisive issues: “A timely masterpiece.”—Patricia S. Churchland, author of Touching a Nerve Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality and reason have become political, disputed concepts, subject to easy dismissal. Julian Baggini argues eloquently that we must recover our reason and reassess its proper place, neither too highly exalted nor completely maligned. Rationality does not require a cold, sterile worldview—it simply involves the application of critical thinking wherever thinking is needed. Addressing such major areas of debate as religion, science, politics, psychology, and economics, the author calls for commitment to the notion of a “community of reason,” where disagreements are settled by debate and discussion, not brute force or political power. Baggini’s insightful book celebrates the power of reason, our best hope—indeed our only hope—for dealing with the intractable quagmires of our time. “The toxic gloating of ‘gut feelings,’ hateful politics and heart-over-head attacks on good sense urgently need an antidote. Baggini has risen to the occasion…compelling.”—Patricia S. Churchland, author of Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
An Essay On The Rationality Of Brutes With A Philosophical Comparison Between Dr Codgill And Mango The Great Monkey
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Author : David Henry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1752
An Essay On The Rationality Of Brutes With A Philosophical Comparison Between Dr Codgill And Mango The Great Monkey written by David Henry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1752 with categories.
An Essay On The Rationality Of Brutes
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Author : David Henry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1750
An Essay On The Rationality Of Brutes written by David Henry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1750 with Satire, English categories.
Rationality And Decision Making
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-02-08
Rationality And Decision Making written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with Philosophy categories.
The volume Rationality and Decision Making: From Normative Rules to Heuristics analyses rational and irrational decision making by individuals as well as by groups. The contributors adopt methodological, logical, linguistic, psychological, historical, and evolutionary perspectives.
Normative Bedrock
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Author : Joshua Gert
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-27
Normative Bedrock written by Joshua Gert and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with Philosophy categories.
Joshua Gert presents an original and ambitious theory of the normative. Expressivism and non-reductive realism represent two very widely separated poles in contemporary discussions of normativity. But the domain of the normative is both large and diverse; it includes, for example, the harmful, the fun, the beautiful, the wrong, and the rational. It would be extremely surprising if either expressivism or non-reductive realism managed to capture all—or even the most important—phenomena associated with all of these notions. Normative Bedrock defends a response-dependent account of the normative that accommodates the kind of variation in response that some non-reductive realists downplay or ignore, but that also allows for the sort of straightforward talk of normative properties, normative truth, and substantive normative disagreement that expressivists have had a hard time respecting. One of the distinctive features of Gert's approach is his reliance, throughout, on an analogy between colour properties and normative properties. He argues that the appropriate response to a given instance of a normative property may often depend significantly on the perspective one takes on that instance: for example, whether one views it as past or future. Another distinctive feature of Normative Bedrock is its focus on the basic normative property of practical irrationality, rather than on the notion of a normative reason or the notion of the good. This simple shift of focus allow for a more satisfying account of the link between reasons and motivation, and helps to explain why and how some reasons can justify far more than they can require, and why we therefore need two strength values to characterize the normative capacities of practical reasons.
Epistemic Risk And The Demands Of Rationality
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Author : Richard Pettigrew
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-17
Epistemic Risk And The Demands Of Rationality written by Richard Pettigrew and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-17 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.
How much does rationality constrain what we should believe on the basis of our evidence? According to this book, not very much. For most people and most bodies of evidence, there is a wide range of beliefs that rationality permits them to have in response to that evidence. The argument, which takes inspiration from William James' ideas in 'The Will to Believe', proceeds from two premises. The first is a theory about the basis of epistemic rationality. It's called epistemic utility theory, and it says that what it is epistemically rational for you to believe is what it would be rational for you to choose if you were given the chance to pick your beliefs and, when picking them, you were to care only about their epistemic value. So, to say which beliefs are permitted, we must say how to measure epistemic value, and which decision rule to use when picking your beliefs. The second premise is a claim about attitudes to epistemic risk, and it says that rationality permits many different such attitudes. These attitudes can show up in epistemic utility theory in two ways: in the way you measure epistemic value; and in the decision rule you use to pick beliefs. This book explores the latter. The result is permissivism about epistemic rationality: different attitudes to epistemic risk lead to different choices of prior beliefs; given most bodies of evidence, different priors lead to different posteriors; and even once we fix your attitudes to epistemic risk, if they are at all risk-inclined, there is a range of different priors and therefore different posteriors they permit.
African Philosophy And The Epistemic Marginalization Of Women
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Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-20
African Philosophy And The Epistemic Marginalization Of Women written by Jonathan O. Chimakonam and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-20 with Philosophy categories.
This book examines the underexplored notion of epistemic marginalization of women in the African intellectual place. Women's issues are still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies and academics in sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which privilege men over women make it difficult for the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the feminine epistemic perspective, to become obvious. Contributors address these issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, demonstrating what philosophy could do to ameliorate the epistemic marginalization of women, as well as ways in which African philosphy exacerbates this marginalization. Philosophy is supposed to teach us how to lead the good life in all its ramifications; why is it failing in this duty in Africa where the issue of women’s epistemic vision is concerned? The chapters raise feminist agitations to a new level; beginning from the regular campaigns for various women’s rights and reaching a climax in an epistemic struggle in which the knowledge-controlling power to create, acquire, evaluate, regulate and disseminate is proposed as the last frontier of feminism.
An Essay On The Rationality Of Brutes With A Philosophical Comparison Between Dr Codgill Inspector General Of Town Island And Mango The Great Monkey Etc A Satirical Attack On John Hill Attributed In A Ms Note To David Henry
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Author : Dr. Codgill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1752
An Essay On The Rationality Of Brutes With A Philosophical Comparison Between Dr Codgill Inspector General Of Town Island And Mango The Great Monkey Etc A Satirical Attack On John Hill Attributed In A Ms Note To David Henry written by Dr. Codgill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1752 with categories.