Robert Audi: Critical Engagements

ISBN-13: 9783030004811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 251 str.

Müller-Salo, Johannes

Opis

This volume contains critical papers that address central issues in the philosophy of Robert Audi. It examines this influential philosopher's attempt to develop a broad theory of rationality. He believed that this theory could not only explain the meaning of being rational. It could also overcome distances between theoretical and practical reasoning within philosophy.The contributors investigate relevant elements of Audi's work. Coverage reaches from the question of epistemological foundationalism and the possibility of testimony to the ethics of intuitionism, its relationship to deontological moral thinking, and the role of religion within public life in pluralistic societies.The papers do not only discuss Audi's attempt to develop a comprehensive system of philosophical rationality. The contributors also consider central challenges that any general theory of rationality has to meet to achieve the necessary quality standards and represent a convincing reconstruction of human reason's architecture with all its different forms, elements, and structures. The volume will be of enormous use to all scholars interested in the younger history of American philosophy and one of its leading figures. It will also appeal to philosophers and curious readers with an interest in the endeavor of designing one harmonizing, far-reaching theory of rationality.

Spis treści

Part I. Chapter 1: Robert Audi.- Part II. Chapter 2: Audi’s Foundationalism, by Markus Seidel.- Chapter 3: Audi on Testimony, by Isabelle Kessels.- Chapter 4: Audi’s Intuitionism, by Benjamin Hilbrich.- Chapter 5: Audi and Kant, by Jan-Ole Reichardt.- Chapter 6: Audi and rational Altruism, by Charlott Becker.- Chapter 7.- Audi on the Problem of Evil, by Michael Kontny.- Chaper 8: Audi on Religion and Politics, by Christian Engelbrecht.- Chapter 9: Audi and the Principle of Secular Motivation, by Matthias Hoesch.- Part III. Chapter 10: Robert Audi – Response to the Paper.

O autorze

Johannes Müller-Salo, M.A. M.A., born 1988, is a research assistant at the Institute for the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Mainz. His work is focussed on questions of ethics and medical ethics, political philosophy, and environmental aesthetics.

Blurb

This volume documents the 20th Münster Lectures in Philosophy with Robert Audi. In the last decades, Audi's work has deeply influenced different important philosophical discussions, ranging from epistemology, theory of action, and philosophy of rationality to ethics, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy. The critical examinations collected in this book reflect the breadth of Audi's contributions in discussing topics as diverse as epistemological foundationalism and the theory of testimony, ethical intuitionism, the problem of evil and religion's public place within a liberal democracy. Besides his replies to each critical engagement, the volume contains an extensive essay on the problems of perception and cognition written by Audi himself.

This volume will be of enormous use to all scholars interested in the younger history of American philosophy and one of its leading figures. It will also appeal to philosophers and curious readers with an interest in the endeavor of designing a comprehensive theory of rationality and human reasoning.