Description: Further DetailsTitle: Reasonableness of ReasonCondition: NewSubtitle: Explaining Rationality NaturalisticallyEAN: 9780812692839ISBN: 9780812692839Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Format: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/25/1999Description: Does reliance on reason require an unreasonable faith in reason? In The Reasonableness of Reason, Professor Hauptli argues that naturalized epistemology enables us to explain the reasonableness of the rationalist commitment. Examining different forms of rationalism in turn, the author exposes their limitations. Traditional (justificatory) rationalists are indeed caught in a paradox, and those contemporary rationalists who simply affirm that we should be rational without attempting to argue for it (kerygmatic rationalists, as Hauptli terms them) cannot successfully defend rationalism. Another school of rationalists (realistic rationalists) manages to avoid the paradox which besets justificatory rationalism but, Hauptli shows, this approach rests on a maxim as arbitrary as that of the kerygmatic rationalists. What of naturalized epistemology? A discussion of several naturalistic orientations yields the distinction between descriptive and explanatory naturalism. While descriptive naturalists are reduced to offering no more than an arbitrary commitment, explanatory naturalists can supply a satisfactory response to the challenges raised by conceptual diversity and change. They offer a therapy argument, designed to show how an understanding of our roles as theory-holders and theory-changers undercuts much of the force of traditional challenges to rationality. Explanatory naturalism can successfully defend the reasonableness of reason.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 430gAuthor: John PassmoreGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 1999 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Reasonableness of Reason
Title: Reasonableness of Reason
Subtitle: Explaining Rationality Naturalistically
EAN: 9780812692839
ISBN: 9780812692839
Release Date: 03/25/1999
Release Year: 1999
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Reasonableness of Reason : Explaining Rationality Naturalistically
Number of Pages: 286 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Open Court
Publication Year: 1999
Topic: Epistemology, Movements / Rationalism
Item Height: 0.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: John Passmore
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
