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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100192845845

ISBN-139780192845849

eBay Product ID (ePID)25050014226

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Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameNormativity of Rationality

SubjectGeneral, Logic

Publication Year2021

TypeTextbook

AuthorBenjamin Kiesewetter

Subject AreaPhilosophy

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight17.8 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal149/.2

Table Of Content1: Introduction: the normativity of rationality2: Rationality, reasons, and criticism3: Structural requirements of rationality4: Bootstrapping and other detachment problems5: The why-be-rational challenge6: The myth of structural rationality7: Rationality as responding correctly to reasons8: An evidence-relative account of reasons9: Explaining structural irrationality10: Explaining instrumental irrationality

SynopsisSometimes 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., 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. 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 theseaccounts., 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. He provides a defence of a reason-response conception of rationality, an evidence-relative account of reason, and an explanation of structural irrationality in relation to these accounts

LC Classification NumberBC177