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Is it important to our quality of life that the preferences we satisfy are rational and well-informed? Standard preferentialist theories allege that a person's preferences and their satisfaction are the correct measure of well-being.
In preference-sensitive theories, preferences are important but…. New All Published Forthcoming. Seybold In the s great strides were taken in clarifying how the brain is involved in behaviors that, in the past, had seldom been studied by neuroscientists or psychologists.
This book explores the progress begun during that momentous decade in understanding why we behave, think and feel the way we do,… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Science and Religion Series. Happiness Personhood, Community, Purpose, 1st Edition By Pedro Alexis Tabensky This book is about happiness and about how the supremely happy life - the life blessed with what Aristotle refers to as eudaimonia - is the life of an ethical individual living in a healthy community. Much ethical literature has drawn inspiration from Aristotle's outlook, but relatively little… Paperback — Routledge.
Apprehension Reason in the Absence of Rules, 1st Edition By Lynn Holt This book introduces and explores the role of apprehension in reasoning - setting out the problems, determining the vocabulary, fixing the boundaries, and questioning what is often taken for granted.
Lynn Holt argues that a robust conception of rationality must include intellectual virtues which… Paperback — Routledge. Privileged Access Philosophical Accounts of Self-Knowledge, 1st Edition Edited by Brie Gertler How do you grasp the contents of your mind - your desires, your fears, your sensations, your beliefs? And if it is, what explains your special or 'privileged' access to your own… Paperback — Routledge Ashgate Epistemology and Mind Series. Speaking of a 'third Wittgenstein', this book seeks to correct the… Paperback — Routledge Ashgate Wittgensteinian Studies.
Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism Plato's Subtlest Enemy, 1st Edition By Ugo Zilioli Protagoras was an important Greek thinker of the fifth century BC, the most famous of the so called Sophists, though most of what we know of him and his thought comes to us mainly through the dialogues of his strenuous opponent Plato.
What can we learn from him about the nature of moral development, the justifiability and educability of emotions, the possibility of friendship between parents and their children, or the fundamental aims of… Paperback — Routledge.
Gadamer and Wittgenstein on the Unity of Language Reality and Discourse without Metaphysics, 1st Edition By Patrick Rogers Horn In this innovative comparison of Gadamer and Wittgenstein, the author explores their common concern with the relation of language to reality. Patrick Horn's starting point is the widely accepted view that both philosophers rejected a certain metaphysical account of that relation in which reality… Paperback — Routledge Ashgate Wittgensteinian Studies.
Spegele International relations theory is witnessing a veritable explosion of works within the areas of modernism and postmodernism, yet there has been no attempt to compare these theories and their sources according to a common criterion or logical form. Lynn Holt argues that a robust conception of rationality must include intellectual virtues which cannot be reduced to a set of rules for reasoners, and argues that the virtue of apprehension, an acquired disposition to see things correctly, is required if rationality is to be defensible. Drawing on an Aristotelian conception of intellectual virtue and examples from the sciences, Holt shows why impersonal standards for rationality are misguided, why foundations for knowledge are the last elements to emerge from inquiry not the first, and why intuition is a poor substitute for virtue.
By placing the current scene in historical perspective, Holt displays the current impasse as the inevitable outcome of the replacement of intellectual virtue with method in the early modern philosophical imagination. Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, this book is of interest to a wide range of readers, particularly epistemologists and philosophers of science concerned with the fate of reason.
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His style is reserved and succinct, without needless recurrence. Because of this the author accomplishes a great deal more than many authors would in a short text of pages. This book will appeal to epistemologists and metaphysicians, and to those with strong interdisciplinary interests, as Holt blends his neo-Aristotelianism with a range of previous research interests in rationality theory, scientific discovery, and social psychology.
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