Mele, Alfred R. (Editor), Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University Rawling, Piers (Editor), Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University The Oxford Handbook of Rationality Print ISBN 0195145399, 2004 Abstract: This volume is divided into two main parts. The first examines the nature of rationality broadly understood, which is customarily divided into the theoretical and the practical. Whereas theoretical or epistemic rationality is concerned with what it is rational to believe and sometimes with rational degrees of belief, practical rationality is concerned with what it is rational to do, or intend or desire to do. Included in part I are discussions of practical and theoretical rationality and the relations between them; the relation between reasoning and rationality; rationality as internal consistency; rationality and morality; formal methods in the study of rationality (Bayesianism, decision theory and game theory); rationality and emotion; rationality and rule-following; procedural and substantive rationality; internalism and externalism about practical reasons; Humean rationality; Kantian rationality; motivated irrationality; and paradoxes of rationality. Part II explores rationality's role in and relation to other domains of inquiry: psychology, gender, personhood, language, science, economics, law, and evolution.
Keywords: externalism, Hume, internalism, irrationality, Kant, morality, motivation, practical, rationality, reason, theoretical Table of Contents chapter 1. INTRODUCTION part I. THE NATURE OF RATIONALITY chapter 2. THEORETICAL RATIONALITY chapter 3. PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF THEORETICAL REASONING chapter 4. PROCEDURAL AND SUBSTANTIVE PRACTICAL RATIONALITY chapter 5. HUMEAN RATIONALITY chapter 6. KANT chapter 7. DUTY, RATIONALITY, AND PRACTICAL REASONS chapter 8. BAYESIANISM chapter 9. DECISION THEORY AND MORALITY chapter 10. RATIONALITY AND GAME THEORY chapter 11. PRACTICAL REASONING AND EMOTION chapter 12. THE RATIONALITY OF BEING GUIDED BY RULES chapter 13. MOTIVATED IRRATIONALITY chapter 14. PARADOXES OF RATIONALITY part ii. RATIONALITY IN SPECIFIC DOMAINS chapter 15. RATIONALITY AND PSYCHOLOGY chapter 16. GENDER AND RATIONALITY chapter 17. RATIONALITY AND PERSONS chapter 18. RATIONALITY, LANGUAGE, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY chapter 19. RATIONALITY AND SCIENCE chapter 20. ECONOMIC RATIONALITY chapter 21. LEGAL THEORY AND THE RATIONAL ACTOR chapter 22. RATIONALITY AND EVOLUTION Bibliography Index
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