The Rationality Project: Across the Millennia

ISBN-13: 9783031399190 / Angielski

Lantz Miller

Spis treści

PART I: How a Top-Nodal Theory of Rationality May Aid Understanding and Debates.- Chapter 1: Goals, Terminologies, Assumptions, Directions.- Chapter 2: Tidying the Rational Home.- Chapter 3: The Ontology of Rationality*.- PART II:  Aspects of a Top-Nodal Theory of Rationality.- Chapter 4: The Top-Nodal Theory of Rationality*: Does It Do Justice to “Rationality” and Humanity? - Chapter 5: Rationality’s Precepts and Cognates (irrational, non-rational, arational, etc.).- Chapter 6: [Rationality vs. Authority] vs. [Rationality + Authority].- Chapter 7: Why Rationality? The History and Normativity of Rationality.- Chapter 8: Rationality Personal and Social.- Chapter 9: Closing Remarks with Extensive Example.

O autorze

Lantz Fleming Miller, a visiting professor of philosophy at Ashoka University in India, focuses on moral, social, and political philosophy, especially pertaining to technological developments.  He has published dozens of articles on these subjects in prominent journals. He has also taught philosophy at the University of Twente, Netherlands, and institutes in Paris and New York.

Blurb

Rationality has been philosophers’ concern stretching back to ancient times. But just what is rationality? In trying to answer this question, rationality is found to be more complex than supposed. This book investigates this supposition and thereby aspires to bring together the facets of the peculiar phenomenon that is rationality. Rationality is shown to be both more complex than presumed and yet more accessible than many may have feared. One argument concedes the common assumption that those interested in rationality need only rely on intuitions about this phenomenon. Yet, even moderate research reveals the concept’s profound fuzziness. This book aims to set forth a theory, explanation, and unification of the kindred and disparate understandings of this elusive concept, rationality.

 

Lantz Fleming Miller, a visiting professor of philosophy at Ashoka University in India, focuses on moral, social, and political philosophy, especially pertaining to technological developments.  He has published dozens of articles on these subjects in prominent journals. He has also taught philosophy at the University of Twente, Netherlands, and institutes in Paris and New York.