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The Rationality Project Across the Millennia
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The Rationality Project [electronic resource] : Across the Millennia / by Lantz Miller.
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9783031399206
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1st ed. 2024.
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Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
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1 online resource (XI, 253 p.) 9 illus.
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Summary
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.
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May 08, 2024
Contents
Chapter 1. What Kind of Approach This Study Takes and What It Does Not
Part I How a "Most-Explanatory Theory" of Rationality May Aid Understanding and Debates
Chapter 2. Positioning the Argument: Goals, Terminologies, Assumptions, Directions
Chapter 3. Tidying the Rational* Home
Chapter 4. The Ontology of Rationality
Chapter 5. Further Considerations of the Most Explanatory Theory of Rationality*: Does It Do Justice to Rationality and Humanity?
Part II Aspects of a Most Explanatory Theory of Rationality
Chapter 6. Rationality's Precepts and Cognates (Irrational, Nonrational, Arational, etc.)
Chapter 7. [Rationality vs. Authority] Versus [Rationality + Authority]
Chapter 8. Why Rationality? The Growth and Normativity of Rationality
Chapter 9. Rationality Personal and Social
Chapter 10. Extensive Example and Closing Remarks.
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