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Rationality requires that we intend the means that we believe are necessary for achieving our ends. InstrumentalRationality explores the formulation and status of this requirement of means-ends coherence. In particular, it is concerned with understanding what means-ends...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-29
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In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaña argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaña provides a novel account...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-13
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In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaña argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaña provides a novel account...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-13
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The Integration of Knowledge explores a theory of human knowledge through a model of rationality combined with some fundamental logical, mathematical, physical and neuroscientific considerations. Its ultimate goal is to present a philosophical system of integrated...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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Space exploration, especially the recent push for the commercialization and militarization of space, is attracting increased attention not only from the wider public and the private sector but also from scholars in a wide range of disciplines. At this moment of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-02
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For most of the twentieth century, philosophers have explored the nature and extent of our knowledge-especially our knowledge of the world grounded in sense-perceptual experience. Can we be sure that our experience of the world is enough to ground our knowledge of an...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-19
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Scott Sturgeon presents an original account of mental states and their dynamics. He develops a detailed story of coarse- and fine-grained mental states, a novel perspective on how they fit together, an engaging theory of the rational transitions between them, and a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-30
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Scott Sturgeon presents an original account of mental states and their dynamics. He develops a detailed story of coarse- and fine-grained mental states, a novel perspective on how they fit together, an engaging theory of the rational transitions between them, and a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-30
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At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge claims without somehow transcending our discursive and fallible nature...
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Polity
Parution :
2020-01-14
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How should thinkers cope with uncertainty? What makes their degrees of belief rational, and how should they reason about uncertain matters? In epistemology, recent research has attempted to answer these questions by developing formal models of ideally rational...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-12
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What we value, like, endorse, want, and prefer changes over the course of our lives, sometimes as a result of decisions we make--such as when we choose to become a parent or move to a new country--and sometimes as a result of forces beyond our control--such as when our...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-12
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How should thinkers cope with uncertainty? What makes their degrees of belief rational, and how should they reason about uncertain matters? In epistemology, recent research has attempted to answer these questions by developing formal models of ideally rational...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-12
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Compared to other kinds of knowledge, how fragile is our knowledge of morality? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds, in that it cannot be forgotten? What makes reliable evidence in fundamental moral...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-10
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Compared to other kinds of knowledge, how fragile is our knowledge of morality? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds, in that it cannot be forgotten? What makes reliable evidence in fundamental moral...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-12-10
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Based around the image of a carousel, this book uses epistemological theory to tackle the paradoxical acceleration and deceleration of time that is experienced by many. The consequence of this paradox is the observance of the past, present and future coinciding, where...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-12-05
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Moral judgments attempt to describe a reality that does not exist, so they are all false. This is the moral error theory, a deeply troubling yet plausible view that is now one of the canonical positions in moral philosophy. The most compelling argument against it is the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-23
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Moral judgments attempt to describe a reality that does not exist, so they are all false. This is the moral error theory, a deeply troubling yet plausible view that is now one of the canonical positions in moral philosophy. The most compelling argument against it is the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-23
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Die in diesem Band der Moritz Schlick Gesamtausgabe zusammengestellten Schriften stellen einen Großteil der unveröffentlichten Arbeiten dar, die Moritz Schlick am Anfang seiner philosophischen Laufbahn verfasst hat. Dabei wird vor allem deutlich, wie breit die...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-09-17
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Robert C. Stalnaker presents a set of essays on the structure of inquiry. In the first part he focuses on the concepts of knowledge, belief, and partial belief, and on the rules and procedures we use - or ought to use - to determine what to believe, and what to claim...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-27
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Robert C. Stalnaker presents a set of essays on the structure of inquiry. In the first part he focuses on the concepts of knowledge, belief, and partial belief, and on the rules and procedures we use - or ought to use - to determine what to believe, and what to claim...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-27
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