Author: Ernest Belfort BaxPublisher:
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Category : Consciousness
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Real, the Rational and the Alogical
Author: Ernest Belfort BaxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consciousness
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Rational Philosophy in history and in system: an introduction to a logical and metaphysical course
Author: Alexander Campbell FRASER (Philosopher.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Rationality and Logic
Author: Robert HannaPublisher: Bradford Book
ISBN: 9780262512510
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Rationality and Logic, Robert Hanna argues that logic is intrinsically psychological and that human psychology is intrinsically logical. He claims that logic is cognitively constructed by rational animals (including humans) and that rational animals are essentially logical animals. In order to do so, he defends the broadly Kantian thesis that all (and only) rational animals possess an innate cognitive "logic faculty." Hanna's claims challenge the conventional philosophical wisdom that sees logic as a fully formal or "topic-neutral" science irreconcilably separate from the species- or individual-specific focus of empirical psychology. --From publisher's description.
Contemporary British Philosophy
Author: John Henry MuirheadPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Reason and Rationality
Author: Maria Cristina AmorettiPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110325861
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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.
The Literary Guide and Rationalist Review
Author: A Logical Approach to Discrete Math
Author: David GriesPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780387941158
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Here, the authors strive to change the way logic and discrete math are taught in computer science and mathematics: while many books treat logic simply as another topic of study, this one is unique in its willingness to go one step further. The book traets logic as a basic tool which may be applied in essentially every other area.
The Value of Rationality
Author: Ralph WedgwoodPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198802692
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of the concept of rationality. The Value of Rationality is designed as the first instalment of a trilogy - to be followed by accounts of the requirements of rationality that apply specifically to beliefs and choices. The central claim of the book is that rationality is a normative concept. This claim is defended against some recent objections. Normative concepts are to be explained in terms of values (not in terms of 'ought' or reasons). Rationality is itself a value: rational thinking is in a certain way better than irrational thinking. Specifically, rationality is an internalist concept: what it is rational for you to think now depends solely on what is now present in your mind. Nonetheless, rationality has an external goal - the goal of thinking correctly, or getting things right in one's thinking. The connection between thinking rationally and thinking correctly is probabilistic: if your thinking is irrational, that is in effect bad news about your thinking's degree of correctness. This account of rationality explains how we should set about giving a theory of what it is for beliefs and choices to be rational. Wedgwood thus unifies practical and theoretical rationality, and reveals the connections between formal accounts of rationality (such as those of formal epistemologists and decision theorists) and the more metaethics-inspired recent discussions of the normativity of rationality. He does so partly by drawing on recent work in the semantics of normative and modal terms (including deontic modals like 'ought').
Reason and Nature
Author: Morris R. CohenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429860439
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
First published in 1931, this volume represents the culmination of twenty years’ of the study on the principles of science. Noticing a widespread craving for philosophical light at a time of scant such offerings, Morris R. Cohen aimed to demonstrate here the fundamental and ancient connection between nature and science - between hearts and minds – in an attempt to salve the developing mutual hostility between the two in the 1920s. The volume bears particular relation to George Santayana’s Life of Reason and Bertrand Russell’s Principles of Mathematics and explores areas including the character of the insurgence against reason and reason in the contexts of the natural and social sciences.
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